每日長(zhǎng)難句 171

原句：

Even before the invention of the electric light bulb, the author produced a remarkable work of speculative fiction / that would foreshadow many ethical questions to be raised by technologies yet to come.

【2017 英語(yǔ)一 Text 3】

生詞：

electric light bulb 電燈泡

remarkable adj. 引人注目的，非凡的

work n. 著作，作品

speculative fiction 推理小說(shuō)

foreshadow v. 預(yù)示；是……的預(yù)兆

raise v. 引起，引發(fā)

yet to come 還沒(méi)到來(lái)

分析：

??找謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞

Even before the invention of the electric light bulb, the author produced a remarkable work of speculative fiction that would foreshadow many ethical questions to be raised by technologies yet to come.

??斷開(kāi)長(zhǎng)難句

①主句：Even before the invention of the electric light bulb, the author produced a remarkable work of speculative fiction

• 簡(jiǎn)化：…，the author produced a work?…

②定語(yǔ)從句：that would foreshadow many ethical questions to be raised by technologies yet to come

• 簡(jiǎn)化：that would foreshadow many ethical questions…

譯文：

甚至在電燈泡發(fā)明之前，這位作家就創(chuàng)作出了一部非凡的推理小說(shuō)作品，這部作品預(yù)示了未來(lái)技術(shù)將引發(fā)的許多倫理問(wèn)題。