Perhaps the most dramatic example of the negative consequences of poor communication between scientists and the public is the issue of climate change, where a variety of factors, not the least of which is a breakdown in the transmission of fundamental climate data to the general public, has contributed to widespread mistrust and misunderstanding of scientists and their research.
【句子拆分】
主語 the most dramatic example
謂語 is
賓語 the issue
【單詞解析】
單詞
consequence
音標(biāo)
[?k?ns?kw?ns]
中文詞意
n. 結(jié)果,后果
【語法分析】
這句話是一個(gè)復(fù)合句,主句是"Perhaps...change"一部分。主句是主系表句型,主語"the most dramatic example",后面的"of..."結(jié)構(gòu)是定語修飾主語,系詞"is","the issue"是表語,"of climate change"是表語的定語。 從"where"到整句的結(jié)束都是定語從句,從句的主語是"a variety of factors",謂語是"has contributed to",賓語是"widespread...research",雙逗號(hào)之間的是定語從句,做插入語部分。
這句話比較長(zhǎng),但問題幾乎都集中在后面的從句中。這是一個(gè)非限定性的定語從句,修飾的名詞是主句的表語,先行詞在后面的定語從句中作地點(diǎn)狀語,雙逗號(hào)中的插入語也是一個(gè)定語從句,實(shí)際上本來應(yīng)該是"where a variety of factors which is a...",但是中間插入了一個(gè)"not the least of",表達(dá)“最重要的某物“,而"not the least of which"在某些解釋中幾乎被當(dāng)成了固定的形式使用,它尤其出現(xiàn)在表達(dá)一個(gè)集合的名詞中(因此才能在當(dāng)中挑出一個(gè)來著重說),比如"advantages/reasons"還有本句的"factors",有時(shí)為了突出是一定數(shù)量的某物,還會(huì)加上量詞比如"an incredible number of tasks"