導語：閱讀中難免會出現長句難句，下面是YJBYS小編整理的2017雅思考試閱讀長難句解讀，歡迎參考!
● 題目：
Anthropologists also use the term ‘culture' in a more restricted sense when they refer to the ‘culture' of a particular society, meaning the non-biological characteristics unique to that society, which distinguish it from other societies. (劍4, test4 passage 2)
● 分析：
本句的主句為“Anthropologists also use the term ‘culture' in a more restricted sense”，
“when they refer to the ‘culture' of a particular society”為when引導的時間狀語從句;
“meaning the non-biological characteristics unique to that society”為現在分詞短語做定語;
“which distinguish it from other societies”為非限制性定語從句，關係詞為which。
● 題目：
But it is also the painstaking task of interpretation, so that we come to understand what these things mean for the human story. (劍4, test4 passage 2)
● 分析：
本句的主句為“But it is also the painstaking task of interpretation”;
“so that we come to understand what these things mean for the human story”為so that引導的結果狀語從句;
“what these things mean for the human story”為what引導的賓語從句，做understand的賓語。
● 題目：
A biomechanic films an athlete in action and then digitizes her performance, recording the motion of every joint and limb in three dimensions. ● 分析：
本句的主句為“A biomechanic films an athlete in action and then digitizes her performance”;
“recording the motion of every joint and limb in three dimensions”為現在分詞短語做狀語。
● 題目：
That understanding took the later analysis of biomechanics specialists, who put their minds to comprehending something that was too complex and unorthodox ever to have been invented through their own mathematical simulations. (劍4, test4 passage 1)
● 分析：
本句較長，主句為“That understanding took the later analysis of biomechanics specialists”;
“who put their minds to comprehending something”為定語從句，做biomechanics specialists 的定語，關係詞為who;
“that was too complex and unorthodox ever to have been invented through their own mathematical simulations”也是定語從句，做something的'定語，關係詞為that。
● 題目：
Beginning as something unusual in a handful of big cities—New York, London, Paris and Berlin—the new medium quickly found its way across the world, attracting larger and larger audiences wherever it was shown and replacing other forms of entertainment as it did so. (劍4, General Training Test A passage 3)
● 分析：
本句的主句為“the new medium quickly found its way across the world”;“Beginning as something unusual in a handful of big cities—New York, London, Paris and Berlin”現在分詞短語做狀語;“attracting larger and larger audiences wherever it was shown and replacing other forms of entertainment as it did so”兩個並列的分詞短語做狀語，其中“wherever it was shown”wherever引導的為地點狀語，“as it did so”為as引導的狀語從句。
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The second set of more specific changes that have led to the present concern about the distribution of health-care resources stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD countries, accompanied by large-scale demographic and social changes which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources. (劍4, test4 passage 3)
● 分析：
本句主句為“The second set of more specific changes stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD countries”;“that have led to the present concern about the distribution of health-care resources.”為定語從句，做changes的定語，關係詞為that;“accompanied by large-scale demographic and social changes which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.”為過去分詞短語做狀語，其中“which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.”為定語從句，做changes的定語，關係詞為which,“that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.”為that引導的賓語從句，做mean的賓語。
