027 田静考研英语每日一句 I 2004英一T4-02

每日长难句 27

Hofstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.”

【2004 Text 4】

单词：

✅educational system 教育体制

✅in the grips of... 受……的控制

✅grip n. 掌握，控制

✅militantly adv. 强硬地；好战地

✅proclaim v. 宣布，宣告；明确显示

✅hostility n. 敌意，敌对；战斗行动

✅intellect n. 才智，智力

✅eagerness n. 急切，渴望

✅identify v. 认同，认出，识别；支持

✅intellectual promise 才智上的前途 

分析长难句：

找谓语动词：

Hofstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.”

断开长难句：

Hofstadter says / our country’s educational system is in the grips of people / who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children / who show the least intellectual promise.”

①主句：Hofstadter says

②宾语从句：our country’s educational system is in the grips of people

③定语从句：who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children

④定语从句：who show the least intellectual promise

📝平行结构

① joyfully and militantly

② their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children

译文：

霍夫斯坦特说，我们国家的教育体制掌握在这样一群人手里，他们“沾沾自喜地、强硬地宣布自己对才智的敌意，并且急切地对那些在才智上没什么前途的孩子表示认同”。