学员疑问:老师,下面这个句子结构太复杂了,请帮忙分析一下。
There is much cause, therefore, to fear lest a thoughtless and lavish dissipation of the noblest mental endowments should become prevalent, or a false and baseless credit-system in thought spring up amid an absolute deficiency of a solid and permanent capital safely invested in fundamental ideas and lasting truths.
老师解答:这个句子的确结构复杂,具体包含了三个句子结构,
主句:There is much cause to fear lest(由lest引导从句)
从句由or连接的两个并列分句:a...dissipation ... should become prevalent,
or a ... credit-system ...(省略should)spring up (amid ...deficiency of... capital...)
点评分析:此句解构的难点有:lest引导从句(虚拟语气),第二个从句中省略should。无论如何,只要是句子,不管是主句还是从句,都应该属于基本句型的某一种。