英语六级阅读理解备考：真题长难句(15)_大学英语阅读

英语六级阅读理解备考：真题长难句(15)

　　【分析】本句为简单句。句子主干为the discounts have become a part of businesses。过去分词短语unheard of a generation ago作状语，它的逻辑主语是the discounts。破折号后的内容是插入成分。as as结构表示同级比较，意为和一样。

　　【译文】实际上，人们在二三十年前还没听说过折扣，但现在折扣已经成为许多行业的惯常行为了就像样板间里的彩电和飞机上的免费咖啡一样普通。

　　74.

　　Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people cant take care of themselves and need special treatment; and they threaten the creation of a new myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups.

　　【分析】本句为并列复合句。句子主干为Senior citizen discounts enhance the myth and they threaten the creation of a new myth。句中的两个myth后面都是that引导的同位语从句，解释说明两种观念的内容。

　　【译文】老年人折扣只是加强了这样一种观念，即认为老年人不能照顾自己而需要特殊对待;它们也预示了一种新观念的形成，即老年人实际上并不感谢这种特殊对待，并且让孩子和其他年龄群的人负担自己。

　　75.

　　When I think about all the problems of our overpopulated world and look at our boy grabbing at the lamp by the sofa, I wish I could have turned to Planned Grandparenthood when my parents were putting the grandchild squeeze on me.