考研英語長難句｜Day38

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今日長難句

Her identification of a U-shaped curve in women’s labour participation over 200 years, published in her 1990 book Understanding the Gender Gap, demolished the notion of a simplistic link to economic growth.

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詞彙解析

identification /aɪˌdentɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ n. 確認；確定

curve /kɜːrv/ n. 曲線

labour participation 勞動參與（率）

demolish /dɪˈmɑːlɪʃ/ v. 推翻，駁倒

notion /ˈnoʊʃ(ə)n/ n. 觀念；概念

simplistic /sɪmˈplɪstɪk/ adj. 過分簡單（化）的

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結構分析

✔句子主幹：

Her identification demolished the notion

✔定語1：

of a U-shaped curve in women’s labour participation

✔狀語：

over 200 years

✔定語2：

of a simplistic link to economic growth

✔定語3（插入語）：

published in her 1990 book Understanding the Gender Gap

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參考譯文

Her identification of a U-shaped curve in women’s labour participation over 200 years, published in her 1990 book Understanding the Gender Gap, demolished the notion of a simplistic link to economic growth.

她在1990年出版的《理解性別差距》一書中指出，在過去200年裡，女性的勞動參與率呈U型曲線，推翻了將其與經濟增長簡單聯繫在一起的觀念。