第219句 空间思维
among the many shaping factors, i would single out the country’s excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the american genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological.
译文:在诸多形成因素当中,我想特别指出:这个国家优秀的小学教育;欣然接受新技术的劳动力;奖励发明者的做法;而且最重要的是美国人对那些技术性事物的非言语的、“空间性的”思考天赋。
点睛:本句的主干为i would single out…。句首的介词短语among the many shaping factors作状语,谓语为would single out,其后用分号隔开的各个名词性短语作single out的宾语,其中a labor force后接由that引导的定语从句。最后的形容词technological是后置定语,修饰前面的things,短语single out“挑出”后面列举的各种因素都是shaping factors的只体内容,要特别注意在最后一个因素前面的短语above all,该短语用来强调american genius for nonverbal,“spatial”thinking about things technological.这说明它比其他因素更重要。
adj. 基本的,初级的,元素的