每日長(zhǎng)難句 138

原句：

While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws, we're ignoring the balance of power / that implies (that as"consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as"citizens" hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change).

【2019 英語(yǔ)二 Text4】

分析：

??主句：

we're ignoring the balance of power

??從句：

• While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws

（時(shí)間并狀語(yǔ)從句）

• that implies that as"consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as"citizens" hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change.

（定語(yǔ)從句）

• that as"consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as"citizens" hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change

(賓語(yǔ)從句)

??嵌套結(jié)構(gòu)

定語(yǔ)從句嵌套了賓語(yǔ)從句

??平行結(jié)構(gòu)

1. and連接的結(jié)構(gòu)
2. rather than引出的結(jié)構(gòu)（A rather than B 是A而不是B）

as"consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as"citizens" (we must) hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change

生詞：

?straws n. 吸管

?imply v. 暗示，暗指

?hold sb. to account 追究某人的責(zé)任

?push for sth. 努力爭(zhēng)取某事物，一再要求某事物

譯文：

當(dāng)圍繞“我們的環(huán)境及我們對(duì)它的責(zé)任”這一討論仍然聚焦于購(gòu)物袋和吸管時(shí)，我們忽視了一種力量的制衡，這股力量暗示：作為“消費(fèi)者”我們必須可持續(xù)地消費(fèi)，而不是作為“公民”去追究政府和產(chǎn)業(yè)的責(zé)任以推動(dòng)真正的系統(tǒng)性變革。