每日長(zhǎng)難句 142

原句：

The Dutch giant Elsevier, / which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers?produced in the world, made profits of more than ￡900m last year, / which UK?universities alone spent more than ￡210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access?their own publicly funded research; / both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite?increasingly desperate efforts to change them.

【2020 英語(yǔ)一 Text2】

生詞：

?enable sb. to do sth.?使某人能夠做某事

?publicly funded research?公費(fèi)資助的研究

?fund?v.?為…提供資金

?unstoppably?adv.?無(wú)法停下來(lái)地；無(wú)法遏制地

?desperate efforts?拼命的，孤注一擲的努力

分析：

??主句：

The Dutch giant Elsevier,…made profits of more than ￡900m last year,…both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite?increasingly desperate efforts to change them.

??從句：

• which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers?produced in the world
• which UK?universities alone spent more than ￡210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access?their own publicly funded research

(均為定語(yǔ)從句)

譯文：

荷蘭（科學(xué)出版）巨頭Elsevier——自稱出版了全世界25%的科學(xué)論文——去年盈利超過(guò)9億英鎊，然而僅僅是英國(guó)的大學(xué)2016年就花費(fèi)了超過(guò)2.1億英鎊來(lái)使研究者能夠獲取他們自己的、由公費(fèi)資助的研究；盡管越來(lái)越不顧一切地努力去改變，但是這兩個(gè)數(shù)字似乎不可遏制地上漲。