2016考研英语阅读真题逐句拆分解析(87)
Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us, as religion once did,
时间状语 伴随状语 主语 谓语 宾语 目的状语 插入语
Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying
同位语 宾语从句1 宾语从句2 连词 宾语从句3
this but in living with it.
译文:今天,我们的周围充斥着简单幸福的许诺,我们需要艺术来告诉我们,正如宗教曾经告诉过我们的那样,死的象征:记住你终将死亡,一切都会结束,而幸福不会因否认这一点而到来,而是要接受这一事实。
分析:本句的主干是…we need art…。Today是时间状语,surrounded by…是伴随状语,to tell us…Memento mori是目的状语,介词短语 as religion once did是插入语。随后的remember that…是Memento mori的同位语,用来解释这句拉丁语的含义。该同位语共包含三个 that引导的宾语从句,都做 remember的宾语。