每日長(zhǎng)難句 164

原句:

Facebook promised the European commission then / that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, / but it broke promise / almost as soon as the deal went through.

【2018 英語二 Text 3】

生詞:

the European commission 歐盟委員會(huì)

link…to… 使…和…聯(lián)系起來

break the promise 打破承諾，背棄承諾

go through 通過

分析:

??斷開長(zhǎng)難句

①Facebook promised the European commission then

②that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities

③but it broke promise

④almost as soon as the deal went through

??主句:

Facebook promised the European commission then

??從句:

①(賓語從句)

that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities

②(時(shí)間狀語從句)

almost as soon as the deal went through

譯文:

Facebook當(dāng)時(shí)向歐盟委員會(huì)承諾不會(huì)把電話號(hào)碼與Facebook身份信息相關(guān)聯(lián)，但協(xié)議剛一獲準(zhǔn)通過，它就背棄了這一承諾。