whether it was due to his weary and always absentminded manner, or whether it was due to his ungraceful appearance—that completely lax and listless way he had of walking, with his big, prematurely bald, uncovered head thrown back, his long, thin nose in the air, like a sail on his bony, emaciated little face with its short, sparse, rough beard, already somewhat gray, parted on his chin—he was liked so little by people in general that many even went so far as to deny him any medical skill。先看这长句,我的天,这是一句
absentminded:心不在焉的,很好记,absent + mind + ed就是脑子缺席,ed形容词化
his ungraceful appearance—that completely lax and listless way he had of walking,
描述主体 从句:行为方式 方式的主体:走路
with his big, prematurely bald, uncovered head thrown back, his long, thin nose
伴随状态 并列短语描述头部
in the air, like a sail on his bony, emaciated little face with its short, sparse, rough
继续描述头部的鼻子 并列描述脸部 with引导其他伴随胡须
beard, already somewhat gray, parted on his chin—he was liked so little by people
多个胡须定语 胡须状态附着 破折号描述结束 so...that句型
in general that many even went so far as to deny him any medical skill 被如此少的人喜欢以至于……
下一句更嵌套:
He had gradually formed a concept of life so devoid of all those friendly and almost necessary hypocrisies, those spontaneous, inevitable illusions composed and created by each of us without our volition, through an instinctive need—for social decency, one might say—that his company had now become intolerable.
先把单词看下:
devoid of 不需要 其中devoid是缺乏,形容词,也是so...that句式中的形容词根基
hypocrisies: n.虚伪,伪善复数形式 8级词汇
spontaneous:adj.自发的,不自觉的
volition: n.意志,相比will更强调自控,也更正式
decency:n体面,形容词是常见的decent的名词形式
句子结构:
.【He had gradually formed a concept of life】 so devoid of all those