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SAT 长难句汇总以下页码均为OG（第二版）P392 line 36And, unable for so long to reach behind the glass and touch the strangely familiar face we saw staring back, we filled in all that we did not know with all that we could imagine.P426 line 6Not without purpose had he come down to Yorkshire: his mission was clear, and he intended to discharge it conscientiously: he anxiously desired to have his niece married; to make for her a suitable match; give her in charge to a proper husband, and wash his hands of her for ever.P460 line 25I leaned forward and concentrated down into the invisible shape he had drawn, trying to see the changes that would come, the nighttime rising of dammed water bringing a new lake up with its choice lots, its marinas and beer cans, and also trying to visualize the land as Lewis said it was at that moment, unvisited and free.P476 line 5Slang expressions meaning the same thing as “cool”, like “groovy”, “hep”, “far-out”, “rad”, and “tubular”, have for the most part not had the staying power of “cool”.(主谓；分隔)P477 line 18Carbon dioxide acts in the manner of a greenhouse, trapping the Suns heat, so it followed that Venus was likely to be a very torrid sort of world.P479 line 4Raindrops pounded the hard streets, captured the dim silver glow of street lamps, bounced against sidewalks in glistening sparks, then disappeared like tiny ephemeral jewels, into the darkness.P550 line 8 In the middle of the anger that was my home and the upheaval of a changing world in which it seemed I had no place, our semimonthly excursions to the library were a piece of e perfection.The absence of women in business and financial records makes our knowledge of what middle-class women actually did and how they survived economically quite fragmentary. P578Although nineteenth-century women traveled for a variety of reasons, ranging from a desire to do scientific research to involvement in missionary work, undoubtedly a major incentive was the desire to escape from domestic confinement and the social restrictions imposed on the Victorian female in Britain. (衔接) P578By the latter part of the nineteenth century, women travelers began to be singled out as exemplars of the new social and political freedom and prowess of women. Ironically, Mary Kingsley and other women travelers were opposed to or simply uninterested in the late Victorian campaigns to extend womens political rights. Thus, when Mary Kingsley returned from West Africa in 1895, she was chagrined to discover that she was being hailed as a “new woman” because of her travels. () P578In North America, bats fall into mainly predictable categories: they are nocturnal, eat insects, and are rather small. But winging through their lush, green-black world, tropical bats are more numerous and have more exotic habits than do temperate species. P591Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate nightdwellers with people up to no good, people who have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms. P591The medium is understood as a neutral vessel, which pours out opinions over a public thought of as passive. P606The motifs that recur in this thesis can be identified as far back as the eighteenth century in the vain warnings that early cultural criticism sounded against the dangers of reading novels. P606According to it, watching television not only undermines the viewers ability to criticize and differentiate, along with the moral and political fiber of their being, but also impairs their overall ability to perceive. P606Either the theorists make no use of television at all (in which case they do not know what they are talking about) or they subject themselves to it, and then the question arises-through what miracle isthe theorist able to escape the alleged effects of television? Unlike everyone else, the theorist has remained completely intact morally, can distinguish in a sovereign manner between deception and reality, and enjoys complete immunity in the face of the idiocy that he or she sorrowfully diagnoses in the rest of us. Or could-fatal loophole in the dilemma-the theories themselves be symptoms of a universal stupefaction? P606 line 53That is not surprising, for the conviction that one is dealing with millions of idiots out there in the country is part of the basic psychological equipment of the professional politician. P606 line 70But looking at light from distant objects isnt real time travel, the in-the-flesh participation in past and future found in literature. (同位语) P646 line8Differential equations for the way things should behave under a given set of forces and initial conditions would no longer be valid, since what happens in one instant would not necessarily determine what happens in the next. P646 line 28When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. P646 line 37Unaccustomed to behaving in any mode except the practical one in which feelings are aroused and emotional involvement ensues, most people are unsure how to respond to a work that does not invite sentimental intervention. P648 line 37Neither grieving nor rejoicing at such human destinies as those presented by a work of art begins to define true artistic pleasure; indeed, preoccupation with the human content of the work is in principle incompatible with aesthetic enjoyment proper. P648 line 43Not only did the apocalyptic events of this war have very different meanings for men and women, such events were in fact very different for men and women, a point understood almost at once by an involved contemporary like Vera Brittain. P664 line 36The nature of the barrier thrust between Vera Brittain and her fianc, however, may have been even more complex than she herself realized, for the impediment preventing a marriage of their true minds was constituted not only by his altered experience but by hers. Specifically, as young men became increasingly alienated from their pre-war selves, increasingly immured in the muck and blood of the battlefields, increasingly abandoned by the civilization of which they had ostensibly been heirs, women seemed to become, as if by some uncanny swing of historys pendulum, ever more powerful. As nurses, as munitions workers, as bus drivers, as soldiers in the agricultural “land army,” even as wives and mothers, these formerly subservient creatures began to loom larger. A visitor to London observed in 1918 that “England was a world of womenwomen in uniforms! P664 line 46The wartime poems, stories, and memoirs by women sometimes subtly, sometimes explicitly explore the political and economic revolution by which the First World War at least temporarily dispossessed male citizens of the primacy that had always been their birthright, while permanently granting women access to both the votes and the professions that they had never before possessed. P 664 line 62Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo did not know where their amazement began. They stayed up all night looking at the pale electric bulbs fed by the plant of Aureliano Triste had when the train made its second trip, and it took time and effort for them to grow accustomed to its obsessive noise. P 708 line 1They became indignant over the living images that the prosperous Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortunes tears of affliction had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience who paid two cents a piece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate the outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Don Bruno Crespi, explained by means of a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outburst of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings. P 708 line 8Something similar happened with cylinder phonographs brought from France and intended as a substitute for the antiquated hand organs used by the band of musicians. P 708 line 25An approaching body produces one kind of emotional line, a receding or departing body another; the meeting of two forces produces visual, kinesthetic, and emotional effects, with a world of suggestibility around them like a penumbra that evokes many ideas and emotions whenever these forms are manipulated. P710 line 8This is the power of the human face and the human regard, and the meeting of the eyes is probably as magic a connection as can be made on this earth, equal to any amount of electrical shock or charge. P710 line 20Those used by the medieval and Renaissance painters were understood by the scholars and artists of the timebut, more wonderful, they mean to us today spontaneously just what they meant then; they seem to be permanent. P710 line 34Is it not also likely, then that certain space relations, rhythms, and stresses have psychological significance, that some of these patterns are universal and the key to emotional response, that their deviations and modifications can be meaningful to artists in terms of their own life experiences and that these overtones are grasped by spectators without conscious analysis? P710 line 42There is nothing wrong with attempting to make the often difficult and complex findings of science available to a wider audience, but environmental popularizers often present a one-sided picture and hide important scientific disagreements on issues relevant to environmental quality. The zeal to draw firm conclusions from the results of scientific research frequently prompts speculative matters to be left out or presented with greater authority than they deserve. The partisanship implicit in these failures is most often excused by the originality of the authors perspective on the subject or a passionat