每日長(zhǎng)難句 165

原句：

Tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives,?points to a study in the early 1980s / that divided undergraduates into two?groups: / some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; / others?were told to plan activities and goals in much more details, day by day.

【2018 英語(yǔ)二 Text4】

生詞：

undergraduate?n.?大學(xué)本科生，大學(xué)肆業(yè)生

set out monthly goals?制定月度目標(biāo)

分析：

??斷開長(zhǎng)難句：

①Tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s

②that divided undergraduates into two groups

③some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities

④others were told to plan activities and goals in much more details, day by day

??主句：

Tim Harford…points to a study in the early 1980s

??從句：（定語(yǔ)從句）

that divided undergraduates into two?groups

??修飾前面的study一詞

??分裂結(jié)構(gòu)：

Tim Harford, ①author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s ②that divided undergraduates into two groups

①為插入式分裂結(jié)構(gòu)

②為后移式分裂結(jié)構(gòu)

譯文：

Tim Harford,《混亂：改變我們生活的無(wú)序力量》的作者，提到了20世紀(jì)80年代初的一項(xiàng)研究：研究將本科生分為兩組，一些被建議設(shè)定每月的目標(biāo)及學(xué)習(xí)活動(dòng)；另一些人被要求一天天地、更詳細(xì)地計(jì)劃活動(dòng)及目標(biāo)。