长难句
一、名词性从句
（一）主语从句
1 That as much as one-fourth of all timber harvested is not used proved to be false.
2 Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say.
3 It is one of the most unpleasant discoveries which we all make that we must decline in this way, that if we escape wars, accidents and diseases we shall eventually die of old age, and that this happens at a rate which differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favor of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty.
4 It is recounted of Carlyle that when he heard of the illness of his friend, Henry, he went off immediately to visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.
（二）宾语从句
宾语从句分为三类:动词的宾语从句，介词的宾语从句和形容词的宾语从句.
1 Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as a part of an exchange of duties and entitlements.
2 It was necessary to recognize that these institutions which are based on the same premises, let us say the supernatural, must be considered together, our own among the rest.
3 More generally, the escape clauses could undermine the reforms by encouraging the suspicion that the new package will not deliver the changes that its supporters claim, but close analysis of what is inevitable a
very complicated package might confirm the skeptics’ fears.
4 A leader should show that he or she values the input of subordinates --- for example, by involving them in decisions about matters in which they have a direct stake.
（三）表语从句
表语从句就是用一个句子作为表语。说明主语是什么或者怎么样。
1 The irony of the historian’s craft is that its practitioners always know that their efforts are but contributions to an unending process.
2 What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.
3 Galileo’s greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the earth.
4 One difficulty is that almost all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind, feelings, traits of character, human nature, and so on.
（四）同位语从句
1 Influenced by the view of some twentieth-century feminists that women’s position within the family is one of the central factors determining women’s social position, some historians have underestimated the significance of the woman suffrage movement.
2 It is difficult for any of us in moments of intense aesthetic experience to resist the suggestion that we are catching a glimpse of a light that shines down to us from a different realm of existence, different and, because the experience is intensely moving, in some way higher.
3 This modern faith in medicines is proved by the fact that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is mounting to astronomical figures and shows no signs at present of ceasing to rise.
4 If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment, they would not be so hurt, and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.
二、定语从句
1 Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.
2 New ways of organizing the workplace---all that re-engineering and downsizing---are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training.
3 We live in a society in which the medicinal and social substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.
4 This trend began during the Second World War, when several governments came to the conclusion that the specific demands that a government wants to make of its scientific establishment cannot generally be foreseen in detail.
5 The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind; it is simply the mode by which all phenomena are reasoned about and given precise and exact explanations.
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