142【讲解】静姐考研英语每日一句 I 2020英一T2-01

每日长难句 142

原句：

The Dutch giant Elsevier, / which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, / which UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly funded research; / both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite increasingly desperate efforts to change them.

【2020 英语一 Text2】

生词：

✅enable sb. to do sth. 使某人能够做某事

✅publicly funded research 公费资助的研究

✅fund v. 为…提供资金

✅unstoppably adv. 无法停下来地；无法遏制地

✅desperate efforts 拼命的，孤注一掷的努力

分析：

📝主句：

The Dutch giant Elsevier,…made profits of more than £900m last year,…both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite increasingly desperate efforts to change them.

📝从句：

• which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world
• which UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly funded research

(均为定语从句)

译文：

荷兰（科学出版）巨头Elsevier——自称出版了全世界25%的科学论文——去年盈利超过9亿英镑，然而仅仅是英国的大学2016年就花费了超过2.1亿英镑来使研究者能够获取他们自己的、由公费资助的研究；尽管越来越不顾一切地努力去改变，但是这两个数字似乎不可遏制地上涨。