2017年雅思考试精选阅读长难句解析（1）

　　● 题目：

　　Anthropologists also use the term ‘culture' in a more restricted sense when they refer to the ‘culture' of a particular society, meaning the non-biological characteristics unique to that society, which distinguish it from other societies. (剑4, test4 passage 2)

　　● 分析：

　　本句的主句为“Anthropologists also use the term ‘culture' in a more restricted sense”，

　　“when they refer to the ‘culture' of a particular society”为when引导的时间状语从句;

　　“meaning the non-biological characteristics unique to that society”为现在分词短语做定语;

　　“which distinguish it from other societies”为非限制性定语从句，关系词为which。

　　● 题目：

　　But it is also the painstaking task of interpretation, so that we come to understand what these things mean for the human story. (剑4, test4 passage 2)

　　● 分析：

　　本句的主句为“But it is also the painstaking task of interpretation”;

　　“so that we come to understand what these things mean for the human story”为so that引导的结果状语从句;

　　“what these things mean for the human story”为what引导的宾语从句，做understand的宾语。