1、高考真题长难句荟萃3长难句1：Growing plants indoors has always been taken up as a popular hobby.译文：室内种植植物一直是人们喜爱从事的业余爱好。分析：动名词短语作主语。点拨：take up对产生兴趣，(为了消遣)从事长难句2：Their low-water, low-maintenance requirements provide many benefits for in door gardeners and make them especially appeal to people on the go.译文：它们(多肉植物)
2、不喜水，易于养护的特性给室内园丁带来了很多便利，这使得它们尤其受到繁忙人士的喜爱。点拨：provide many benefits for：为提供许多益处appeal to：吸引；attract/intereston the go：忙碌的长难句3：If anyone had told me three years ago that I would be spending most of my weekends camping, I would have laughed heartily.译文：三年前如果有人告诉我以后我大部分的周末都会在露营，我会放声大笑。分析：该句是一个虚拟条件句。if引导的
3、虚拟条件句，表示与过去事实相反的假设。(虚拟语气影响句意理解)点拨：laugh heartily：开怀大笑长难句4：This brief visit with Mother Nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctors bill for my sons food poisoning.译文：这次对大自然的短暂造访害我请了两天假，为了让严重晒伤的皮肤得以康复，同时，我还要支付儿子食物中毒的医疗费。分析：recovering .为现在分词短语作状语，表示伴随情况
4、或附加说明。点拨：a brief visit：短期旅行recover from：从中恢复过来a bad case of：严重的病(由基本义“例子”到衍生义“病例”)food poisoning：食物中毒长难句5：There was not one night that I dont remember mom reading me a storybook by my bedside.译文：在我的记忆里，没有一个夜晚，妈妈不坐在床边给我读故事的。点拨：bedside:床边长难句6：It wasnt until I learned about Thomas Edison, though, that
5、I really became excited about inventing.译文：不过，直到我了解了托马斯爱迪生，我才真正地热爱发明了。分析：这是一个强调句，其句型为It is / was not until that ，意为“直到才”。长难句7：His guiding hands, combined with my interest in inventing, led me to become an engineer and an inventor.译文：他对我的指导，加之我对发明的兴趣，使我成为一名工程师和发明家。分析：combined with my interest in inventing为过去分词短语作非限制性定语，修饰hands，句子主干是His guiding hands led me to 要学会句式结构，进行仿写。点拨：a guiding hand：指导lead sb to do：促使某人做某事
