每日長難句 190

原句：

Of course, I need to concede / that my collection of "Smiling Victorians" makes up only a tiny percentage of the vast catalogue of photographic portraiture created and 1900, / the majority of which show sitters posing miserably and stiffly in front of painted backdrops, or staring absently into the middle distance.

【2021 英語一 Text3】

單詞：

?concede v. 承認(rèn)

?a tiny percentage of… 一小部分

?photographic portraiture 肖像攝影，肖像照

?sitters n. 當(dāng)模特的人

?miserably adv. 痛苦地，糟糕地

?stiffly adv. 僵硬地，生硬地；頑固地

?backdrop n. 背景幕布；背景

?absently adv. 心不在焉地

分析：

??找謂語動詞

Of course, I need to concede that my collection of "Smiling Victorians" makes up only a tiny percentage of the vast catalogue of photographic portraiture created and 1900, the majority of which show sitters posing miserably and stiffly in front of painted backdrops, or staring absently into the middle distance.

??斷開長難句

①主句：Of course, I need to concede

• 簡化：I need to concede

②賓語從句：that my collection of "Smiling Victorians" makes up only a tiny percentage of the vast catalogue of photographic portraiture created and 1900

• 簡化：that my collection… makes up… a tiny percentage

③定語從句：the majority of which show sitters posing miserably and stiffly in front of painted backdrops, or staring absently into the middle distance

• 簡化：the majority of which show sitters posing… or staring…

譯文：

當(dāng)然，我需要承認(rèn)，我收集的“微笑的維多利亞人”僅占1840年至1900年間創(chuàng)作的大量肖像照的極小一部分，其中大部分展示的是模特在彩繪背景前痛苦而僵硬地?cái)[姿勢，或心不在焉地凝視著不遠(yuǎn)處。