每日長難句 186

原句：

Now that members of Generation Z are graduating college this spring—the most commonly-accepted definition says this generation was born after 1995, give or take a year—the attention has been rising steadily in recent weeks.

【2020 英語二Text4】

生詞：

?now that 既然，由于

?generation n. 一代人，一代；產(chǎn)生，形成

?commonly-accepted 人們普遍接受的

?definition n. 定義

?give or take 相差不到……；或多或少差不多

?steadily adv. 穩(wěn)定地

分析：

??找謂語動詞

Now that members of Generation Z are graduating college this spring—the most commonly-accepted definition says this generation was born after 1995, give or take a year—the attention has been rising steadily in recent weeks.

??斷開長難句

①原因狀語從句：Now that members of Generation Z are graduating college this spring

②插入語：—the most commonly-accepted definition says this generation was born after 1995, give or take a year—

• 賓語從句：this generation was born after 1995, give or take a year （主謂主謂）

③主句：the attention has been rising steadily in recent weeks

譯文：

現(xiàn)在Z世代的成員今年春天即將大學(xué)畢業(yè)——（Z世代）最普通接受的定義是這一代人出生在1995年之后（前后出入一年左右）——最近幾周（對他們）的關(guān)注度一直在穩(wěn)步上去。