每日長難句 158

原句：

Infants are wired to look at parents' faces to try to understand their world, / and if those faces are blank and unresponsive—as they often are when absorbed in a device—it can be extremely disconcerting for the children.

【2017 英語二 Text2】

生詞：

infant n. 嬰兒，幼兒

be wired to do 天生、自然就會(huì)做某事

blank adj. 空白的；沒有感情的

unresponsive adj. 無反應(yīng)的

be absorbed in… 全神專注于…

disconcerting adj. 使人不安的，令人尷尬的

分析：

??找謂語：

Infants are wired to look at parents' faces to try to understand their world, and if those faces are blank and unresponsive—as they often are when absorbed in a device—it can be extremely disconcerting for the children.

??主語：

Infants are wired to look at parents' faces to try to understand their world, it can be extremely disconcerting for the children.

??從句：

①條件狀語從句

if those faces are blank and unresponsive

②定語從句

as they often are when absorbed in a device

??平行結(jié)構(gòu)

① blank and unresponsive

② Infants are wired to look at parents' faces to try to understand their world, and…it can be extremely disconcerting for the children.

譯文：

嬰幼兒天生會(huì)看父母的臉，來試圖了解他們的世界，而且如果這些臉是面無表情的而且沒有反應(yīng)的——就像他們沉浸在（數(shù)字）設(shè)備中時(shí)一樣——這會(huì)讓孩子們非常不安。