四六級長難句每日一句 | 2017.05.06

【今日長難句】It is painful to read these roundabout accounts today. We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn near the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right, regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

【結構解析】

1. 首句中it充當形式主語，to read these roundabout accounts 為真正的主語，譯為：今天讀到這些拐彎抹角的解釋讓人痛苦。

2. 第二句是由but連接的並列句，前半句為we have no land ethic yet, 譯為：我們還沒有大地倫理；

3. but之後的句子主幹為we have drawn near the point of admitting that ….; 譯為：「但是我們至少已經接近承認」。that引導admitting 的賓語從句， as a matter of intrinsic right和regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us 為狀語成分，分別譯為：「作為它們與生俱來的權利」和「不管它們對我們是否具有經濟價值」

【詞的處理】

roundabout / ˈraundəbaut / adj. 迂迴的；間接的；兜圈子的

account / əˈkaunt / n. 解釋；說明

land ethic 大地倫理 （詳見最後）

at least 至少

draw near 接近

as a matter of sth. 事關/作為。。。的問題

intrinsic / inˈtrinsik; -zik / adj. 固有的；內在的；本身的

regardless of …不顧，不管

presence or absence of sth 有還是沒有……

【參考譯文】It is painful to read these roundabout accounts today. We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn near the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right, regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

今天，讀到這些拐彎抹角的說明讓人痛苦。我們還沒有大地理論，但是我們至少已經接近承認：作為它們與生俱來的權利，鳥類應該繼續生存，不管它們對我們是否具有經濟價值。

【備註】關於land ethic

維基百科：

A land ethic is a philosophy or theoretical framework about how, ethically, humans should regard the land. The term was coined by Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) in his A Sand County Almanac (1949), a classic text of the environmental movement. There he argues that there is a critical need for a "new ethic," an "ethic dealing with human's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it".

百度知道：

土地的倫理範疇包含土壤、水、植物和動物，以及大地上存在的一切。土地的倫理觀就是讓人放棄征服者的角色，對每一個倫理範疇內的成員暗含平等和尊敬，把它們當成跟自己一樣平等的分子。

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