129【讲解】静姐考研英语每日一句 I 2019英一T1

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原句：

He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like"children / who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to eaten last.

【2019 英语一 Text 1】

分析：

📝describe A as B

“把A描述成B”为比喻手法，文中是指“把经济上的急躁比喻成（…样的）孩子。”

📝主语：

He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like"children

📝从句：（定语从句）

who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to eaten last

生词：

describe sth. as… 把某事物描述成…

pick sth. out of sth. 把某物从某物中挖走、剔除

put sth. outside 省下某物，留出某物

译文：

他引用古典经济学巨匠Alfred Marshall的话，把这种“经济上的急躁”形容成就好像是“从布丁里把李子检出来立刻吃掉的孩子”一样行事，而不是先把它们放在一边，留到最后再吃。