??每日長(zhǎng)難句 129

原句：

He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like"children / who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to eaten last.

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分析：

??describe A as B

“把A描述成B”為比喻手法，文中是指“把經(jīng)濟(jì)上的急躁比喻成（…樣的）孩子?！?/p>

??主語(yǔ)：

He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like"children

??從句：（定語(yǔ)從句）

who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to eaten last

生詞：

describe sth. as… 把某事物描述成…

pick sth. out of sth. 把某物從某物中挖走、剔除

put sth. outside 省下某物，留出某物

譯文：

他引用古典經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)巨匠Alfred Marshall的話，把這種“經(jīng)濟(jì)上的急躁”形容成就好像是“從布丁里把李子檢出來(lái)立刻吃掉的孩子”一樣行事，而不是先把它們放在一邊，留到最后再吃。