《红宝书》考研英语词汇
每日一句
Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope — all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father that the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “Come out from among them, touch no unclean thing, and I will be your God and you shall be my people.”
词汇突破
frustration[frʌˈstreɪʃn]
n. 挫折
decisive [dɪˈsaɪsɪv]
adj. 决定性的；果断的，坚定的
结构分析
句子主干是 all came together in a decisive moment。Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope 是 all 的同位语，起补充说明作用；when 引导的是定语从句，修饰 a decisive moment，在这个定语从句中，he 是主语，opened, told and read 是谓语，that the first line he saw would settle his fate 是宾语从句，而 he saw 又是 the first line 的定语从句；冒号后面的内容是 the magical words 的同位语。
参考译文
性的困惑，经济上的挫败以及宗教上的希望，在他打开圣经，决定告诉父亲他所见的第一行将解决他的命运并读了神奇的话时，在决定性的时刻聚集在一起：“从他们中间出来， 不要碰任何不洁的东西，我将成为你的上帝，你将成为我的子民。”
