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第四期给大家留了一个句子： According to archaeological evidence, at least 5, 000 years ago, and long before the advent of the Roman Empire, the Babylonians began to measure time, introducing calendars to co-ordinate communal activities, to plan the shipment of goods and, in particular, to regulate planting and harvesting. 在不涉及学术专业知识的前提下，理解一个句子需要两个步骤： 1. 认识单词（包括词组搭配、熟词生义、特定语境义等） 2. 拆分句子结构（识别主干，分析句子中的其他成分） 现在我们一步一步来。 Step 1 - 认识单词 ▼ 1. archaeological adj. 考古学的 2. evidence n. 证据 3. advent n. 到来；出现；降临 4. the Roman Empire 罗马帝国 5. regulate v. 管控；规范 6. co-ordinate v. 协调；统筹 7. communal adj. 公共的 Step 2 - 拆分句子结构 ▼ 第一步：找主干，把握句子的核心意思 According to archaeological evidence, at least 5, 000 years ago, and long before the advent of the Roman Empire, the Babylonians began to measure time, introducing calendars to co-ordinate communal activities, to plan the shipment of goods and, in particular, to regulate planting and harvesting. 句子主干意思还是很简明的：巴比伦人开始测算时间。 第二步：找到各修饰成分 According to archaeological evidence（引导状语）, at least 5, 000 years ago, and long before the advent of the Roman Empire（时间状语）, the Babylonians began to measure time, introducing calendars（非谓语作状语）to co-ordinate communal activities, to plan the shipment of goods and, in particular（插入语）, to regulate planting and harvesting（目的状语）. 这个句子的修饰成分比较复杂，拆解的时候一定要细心：introducing calendars to co-ordinate communal activities, to plan the shipment of goods and, inparticular, to regulate planting and harvesting 整体为非谓语作状语，后面是三个目的状语：to co-ordinate communal activities, to plan the shipment of goods and, to regulate planting and harvesting，后两个 to do 中间，还有一个表示比较的插入语：in particular. 现在把修饰加入句子主干，本句话的完整意思就出来了： 有考古证据表明，至少在5000年前，早在罗马帝国尚未出现之时，巴比伦人就已经开始测算时间了。他们引进日历来统筹公共活动，计划货物装运，特别是管控作物种植和收割。 语法学习不分家，如果你的小伙伴也饱受各种阅读的困扰，欢迎他/她们关注我的公众号。每次让 Shark 陪大家学习10分钟，一起逐步提高阅读能力。
下次我们要分析的句子来自剑桥8<The Little Ice Age>： The Little Ice Age was far from a deep freeze, however; rather an irregular seesaw of rapid climatic shifts, few lasting more than a quarter-century, driven by complex and still little understood interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean. |
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