2018考研英語：經(jīng)典語法長難句解析（99）

　　Grand trade deals, never very high on governments’ agendas, have in recent decades aimed more at locking in existing practice than at winning important new concessions. The TFA reflects curtailed ambition, after plans for agreements in areas such as intellectual property and trade in services were abandoned.

　　長難句解析：

　　Grand trade deals, never very high on governments’ agendas, have in recent decades aimed more at locking in existing practice than at winning important new concessions.

　　詞匯突破：1. Concessions 讓步

　　2. Grand trade deals 大規(guī)模的貿(mào)易協(xié)定

　　3. high on governments’ agendas 政府議程的重點

　　4. existing practice 現(xiàn)行慣例

　　5. new concessions 新的讓步

　　長難句解析：Grand trade deals have aimed more at A than at B.

　　大規(guī)模的貿(mào)易協(xié)議更關(guān)注A不是B

　　A= locking in existing practice

　　B= winning important new concessions

　　切分成分：never very high on governments’ agendas 定語

　　in recent decades 狀語

　　參考譯文：大規(guī)模的貿(mào)易協(xié)議從來不是政府議程的重點，近幾十年來它們更關(guān)注于鎖定現(xiàn)行慣例，而不是爭取重要的新讓步。

　　The TFA reflects curtailed ambition, after plans for agreements in areas such as intellectual property and trade in services were abandoned.

　　詞匯突破：1.curtail 限制，減縮，縮短

　　Spending on books has been severely curtailed.

　　購書的開支已經(jīng)被大大削減

　　2. curtailed ambition

　　被削減的雄心 (壯志難酬)

　　3. intellectual property

　　知識產(chǎn)權(quán)

　　長難句解析： The TFA reflects curtailed ambition

　　直接翻譯：TFA反映了縮減的雄心

　　這樣肯定不通順，所以可以修改為：TFA正是壯志難酬的體現(xiàn)。

　　切分成分： after plans for agreements in areas such as intellectual property and trade in services were abandoned. 狀語從句

　　Plans for agreements were abandoned. 狀語從句的主干

　　in areas such as intellectual property and trade in services 狀語從句中 的定語

　　參考譯文：在知識產(chǎn)權(quán)和服務(wù)業(yè)貿(mào)易等領(lǐng)域的協(xié)議計劃被放棄之后，《貿(mào)易便利化協(xié)議》正是壯志難酬的體現(xiàn)。

　　重點背景介紹：

　　世界貿(mào)易組織(WTO)由于無法有效制約各成員國一直廣受詬病，被媒體譏諷為“停下來喝咖啡說大話的地方”(a coffee stop for meaningless big talk)。22日盧旺達、阿曼、乍得和約旦4國向世界貿(mào)易組織遞交了《貿(mào)易便利化協(xié)定》批準(zhǔn)文件。至此，批準(zhǔn)《協(xié)定》的成員已達112個(ratified by 112 member states)，超過生效所需達到的WTO成員總數(shù)2/3的法定門檻，《協(xié)定》正式生效并對已批準(zhǔn)《協(xié)定》的成員正式實施。該協(xié)定是世貿(mào)組織成立近20年來達成的首個多邊貿(mào)易協(xié)定，最早在1996年新加坡部長級會議上被列入WTO工作日程，2013年12月各成員國就協(xié)定的條文達成一致，中國則于2015年9月批準(zhǔn)接受這份協(xié)定。這份協(xié)議的生效在反自由貿(mào)易的民族主義勢力在各國紛紛抬頭之際顯得彌足珍貴。然而經(jīng)濟學(xué)人雜志認(rèn)為該協(xié)議的象征意義遠大于實際效能，因為一些關(guān)鍵領(lǐng)域未被列入?yún)f(xié)定，并且不存在有效的強制執(zhí)行力來懲罰不遵守協(xié)定的國家。