导语：阅读中难免会出现长句难句，下面是YJBYS小编整理的2017雅思考试阅读长难句解读，欢迎参考!
● 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。
● 题目：
A biomechanic films an athlete in action and then digitizes her performance, recording the motion of every joint and limb in three dimensions. ● 分析：
本句的主句为“A biomechanic films an athlete in action and then digitizes her performance”;
“recording the motion of every joint and limb in three dimensions”为现在分词短语做状语。
● 题目：
That understanding took the later analysis of biomechanics specialists, who put their minds to comprehending something that was too complex and unorthodox ever to have been invented through their own mathematical simulations. (剑4, test4 passage 1)
● 分析：
本句较长，主句为“That understanding took the later analysis of biomechanics specialists”;
“who put their minds to comprehending something”为定语从句，做biomechanics specialists 的定语，关系词为who;
“that was too complex and unorthodox ever to have been invented through their own mathematical simulations”也是定语从句，做something的'定语，关系词为that。
● 题目：
Beginning as something unusual in a handful of big cities—New York, London, Paris and Berlin—the new medium quickly found its way across the world, attracting larger and larger audiences wherever it was shown and replacing other forms of entertainment as it did so. (剑4, General Training Test A passage 3)
● 分析：
本句的主句为“the new medium quickly found its way across the world”;“Beginning as something unusual in a handful of big cities—New York, London, Paris and Berlin”现在分词短语做状语;“attracting larger and larger audiences wherever it was shown and replacing other forms of entertainment as it did so”两个并列的分词短语做状语，其中“wherever it was shown”wherever引导的为地点状语，“as it did so”为as引导的状语从句。
● 题目：
The second set of more specific changes that have led to the present concern about the distribution of health-care resources stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD countries, accompanied by large-scale demographic and social changes which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources. (剑4, test4 passage 3)
● 分析：
本句主句为“The second set of more specific changes stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD countries”;“that have led to the present concern about the distribution of health-care resources.”为定语从句，做changes的定语，关系词为that;“accompanied by large-scale demographic and social changes which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.”为过去分词短语做状语，其中“which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.”为定语从句，做changes的定语，关系词为which,“that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.”为that引导的宾语从句，做mean的宾语。
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