190【讲解】静姐考研英语每日一句 I 2021英一T3

每日长难句 190

原句：

Of course, I need to concede / that my collection of "Smiling Victorians" makes up only a tiny percentage of the vast catalogue of photographic portraiture created and 1900, / the majority of which show sitters posing miserably and stiffly in front of painted backdrops, or staring absently into the middle distance.

【2021 英语一 Text3】

单词：

✅concede v. 承认

✅a tiny percentage of… 一小部分

✅photographic portraiture 肖像摄影，肖像照

✅sitters n. 当模特的人

✅miserably adv. 痛苦地，糟糕地

✅stiffly adv. 僵硬地，生硬地；顽固地

✅backdrop n. 背景幕布；背景

✅absently adv. 心不在焉地

分析：

📝找谓语动词

Of course, I need to concede that my collection of "Smiling Victorians" makes up only a tiny percentage of the vast catalogue of photographic portraiture created and 1900, the majority of which show sitters posing miserably and stiffly in front of painted backdrops, or staring absently into the middle distance.

📝断开长难句

①主句：Of course, I need to concede

• 简化：I need to concede

②宾语从句：that my collection of "Smiling Victorians" makes up only a tiny percentage of the vast catalogue of photographic portraiture created and 1900

• 简化：that my collection… makes up… a tiny percentage

③定语从句：the majority of which show sitters posing miserably and stiffly in front of painted backdrops, or staring absently into the middle distance

• 简化：the majority of which show sitters posing… or staring…

译文：

当然，我需要承认，我收集的“微笑的维多利亚人”仅占1840年至1900年间创作的大量肖像照的极小一部分，其中大部分展示的是模特在彩绘背景前痛苦而僵硬地摆姿势，或心不在焉地凝视着不远处。