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Airline layoffs alone will top 100,000, pushing some analysts to say as many as 1 million workers may lose their jobs because of the post-attack repercussions. |
1)Airline layoffs alone will top 100,000 是主句 |
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Congress, having already passed a $40 billion emergency aid package, is now weighing tax cuts for businesses and low-income households. |
having already passed a $40 billion emergency aid package 是个现在分词短语,作状语,说明谓语动词 “is weighing”发生的时间;现在分词采用的是完成形式,说明“pass”这个动作发生在“weigh”这个动作之前。 |
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If motorists suddenly panic out of fear that gas won’t be available or will be available at some stratospheric price, they are going to line up at gas pumps and create a gasoline shortage. |
1)“they are going to line up at gas pumps and create a gasoline shortage”是主句 |
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Consumers already planning the purchase of a new car, appliance, or other big-ticket item may go ahead, but forget those who had only begun to think about buying. |
1)“but”连接了两个不同种类的句子,前面是个陈述句,而后者是个祈使句 |
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So wary of offending have some marketers become that Sears cancelled its commercials on ABC’s Politically Incorrect after host Bill Baher appeared to insult the military. |
1)这句为了强调表语“so wary of offending”,采用倒装的结构,“some marketers”是主语,“have become”是谓语动词 |
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That is the challenge facing the $372 billion entertainment and amusement industry, which analysts figure will suffer a 6 percent to 8 percent decrease in revenues because of the tragedy. |
1)“that is the challenge facing the $372 billion entertainment and amusement industry”是主句 |
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Although the new season has been pretty well purged of any references that might be deemed offensive in the wake of the attacks, there is serious doubt about viewers’ tastes in the future. |
1)“there is serious doubt about viewers’ tastes in the future”是主句 |
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We have no idea whether we can interest viewers in new shows. |
“whether we can interest viewers in new shows”是个同位语从句,说明“idea”的内容,原先在这样用时通常在“idea”之后加上复合介词“as to”。 |
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Still more were simply scrubbed clean of their reference to terrorism and the World Trade Center. |
在“still more were scrubbed clean of their reference …”中,“clean”作补语,对被动结构中的主语“still more”做补充说明。 |
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First-half profits were down 76 percent, or $7.9 billion. |
在此句中,“76 percent, or $7.9 billion”前省略了表示变化幅度的“by”,此句的意思是“上半年的利润下降了百分之七十六,或下降了七十九亿美元”。 |
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But analysts are confident that the industry will be able to meet the estimated $30 billion in projected claims, a loss that could escalate if costly business-interruption and personal injury claims accelerate. |
1)“but analysts are confident”是主句 |