考研英语
今日长难句：
Furthermore, it is obvious that the strength of a country's economy is directly bound up with the efficiency of its agriculture and industry, and that this in turn rests upon the efforts of scientists and technologists of all kinds.
参考译文：
再者，显而易见的是，一个国家的经济实力与其工农业效率直接相关，而效率的提高则有赖于各类科学家和技术专家的努力。
翻译技巧：
① 该句中it是句子的形式主语，真正的主语是两个由that引导的并列的主语从句。
② 第二个逗号后的this指代的是第一个主语从句中的the efficiency of its agriculture and industry。
重点词汇：
be bound up with 与…紧密相关
in turn 反之，反过来
rest upon 依赖于
be one's turn (to do sth.) 轮到某人（做某事）
on the turn 在转变之中
by turns 依次，轮流地
下期预告：
We are obliged to them because some of these languages have since vanished, as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native languages.
