每日長難句 41

原句：

It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants.

【2006?Text 2】

單詞：

?contend v. 聲稱，主張，認(rèn)為

?revenue n.?收入，收益；稅收

分析長難句：

找謂語動詞：

It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants.

斷開長難句：

It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue / because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants.

①主句：It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue

②原因狀語從句：because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants

譯文：

皇家莎士比亞劇團(tuán)（RSC）聲稱，正是來看戲的游客帶來了小鎮(zhèn)的大部分收入，因為他們（通常在此）過夜（他們中一些人會待四到五個晚上），將大把的錢花在旅館和餐館里。