2013年12月英语四级长难句翻译练习6

　Privacy economist Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will surrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50-cents-off coupon (优惠券).

　　主干：Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests...

　　Privacy economist 和 Alessandro Acquisti 是同位语。tests后的that从句作tests的定语，该从句的谓语动词reveal带有一个宾语从句people will surrender...。

　　译文：隐私经济学家Alessandro Acquisti 进行了一系列的测试，这些测试表明人们会透露像社保卡号这样的个人信息，就只是为了能拿到微不足道的便宜50美分的优惠券。

　There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it's like to work in a field dominated by men. (07.6 Passage 1)

　　主干：There was a time

　　本句是个存在句，主语a time由when引导的定语从句修饰。“about+what”引导的宾语从句构成介词短语，作stories的后置定语在该宾语从句中，it是形式主语，后面的不定式短语to work...是真正的主语。dominated...作a field的后置定语。

　　译文：我生活中有那么一段时间人们老是问我，供职于一个男性占主导地位的领域感觉如何。