138【讲解】静姐考研英语每日一句 I 2019英二T4-02

每日长难句 138

原句：

While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws, we're ignoring the balance of power / that implies (that as"consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as"citizens" hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change).

【2019 英语二 Text4】

分析：

📝主句：

we're ignoring the balance of power

📝从句：

• While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws

（时间并状语从句）

• that implies that as"consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as"citizens" hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change.

（定语从句）

• that as"consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as"citizens" hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change

(宾语从句)

📝嵌套结构

定语从句嵌套了宾语从句

📝平行结构

1. and连接的结构
2. rather than引出的结构（A rather than B 是A而不是B）

as"consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as"citizens" (we must) hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change

生词：

✅straws n. 吸管

✅imply v. 暗示，暗指

✅hold sb. to account 追究某人的责任

✅push for sth. 努力争取某事物，一再要求某事物

译文：

当围绕“我们的环境及我们对它的责任”这一讨论仍然聚焦于购物袋和吸管时，我们忽视了一种力量的制衡，这股力量暗示：作为“消费者”我们必须可持续地消费，而不是作为“公民”去追究政府和产业的责任以推动真正的系统性变革。