新概念英语3逐句精讲: 第36课百万分之一的几率

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lesson36 A Chance in a million 百万分之一的几率

　　We are less credulous than we used to be. In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences—most of them wildly improbable. Readers happily accepted the fact that an obscure maidservant was really the hero's mother. A long-lost brother, who was presumed dead, was really alive all the time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero's downfall. And so on. Modern readers would find such naive solutions totally unacceptable. Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a nineteenth century novelist would find incredible.
　　When I was a boy, my grandfather told me how a German taxi driver, Franz Bussman, found a brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before. While on a walking tour with his wife, he stopped to talk to a workman. After they had gone on, Mrs Bussman commented on the workman's close resemblance to her husband and even suggested that he might be his brother. Franz poured scorn on the idea, pointing out that his brother had been killed in action during the war. Though Mrs Bussman was fully acquainted with this story, she thought that there was a chance in a million that she might be right. A few days later, she sent a boy to the workman to ask him if his name was Hans Bussman, Needless to say, the man's name was Hans Bussman and he really was Franz's long-lost brother. When the brothers were reunited, Hans explained how it was that he was still alive. After having been wounded towards the end of the war, he had been sent to hospital and was separated from his unit. The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on foot. Meanwhile, his unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed. Hans returned to his family home, but the house had been bombed and no one in the neighbourhood knew what had become of the inhabitants. Assuming that his family had been killed during an air raid, Hans settled down in a village fifty miles away where he had remained ever since.

　　新概念英语3逐句精讲：

　　1.We are less credulous than we used to be.

　　我们不再像以往那样轻易相信别人了。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:less…than引导比较状语从句。

　　语言点2:used to be的意思是“过去曾经是”。

　　2.In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences—most of them wildly improbable.

　　在19世纪，小说家常在小说结尾处给读者准备一系列的巧合—大部分是牵强附会，极不可能的。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析: by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences作方式状语，交代如何“给小说结尾”，破折号后面的内容起进一步解释说明的作用。

　　语言点2:wildly improbable的意思是“极其不可能的”，比impossible的程度更深。

　　3.Readers happily accepted the fact that an obscure maidservant was really the hero's mother.

　　当时的读者却愉快地接受这样一些事实，一个低贱的女佣实际上是主人公的母亲。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:that引导同位语从句，解释说明fact是什么。

　　语言点2:请特别注意，本句中的hero不做“英雄”来理解，而是指“主人公”。

　　4.A long-lost brother, who was presumed dead, was really alive all the time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero's downfall.

　　主人公一位长期失散的兄弟，大家都以为死了，实际上一直活着，并且正在策划暗算主人公。

　　语言点:句子结构分析:who引导非限制性定语从句，进一步说明是怎样的一个兄弟。

　　5.And so on.

　　如此等等。