每日長難句 167

原句：

"Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; / it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body…/ [idleness] is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done," / he argues.

【2018 英語二 Text4】

生詞：

idleness n. 閑散，空閑，懶惰

indulgence n. 享受；沉溺，放縱

vice n. 惡習(xí)，缺點

indispensable adj. 必不可少的，必需的

paradoxically adv. 自相矛盾地

分析：

??找謂語動詞：

"Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body…[idleness] is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done," he argues.

??斷開長難句：

①Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice

②it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body…

③[idleness] is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done

④he argues

??主句：

he argues

??as…as… (“和……相比一樣……”)

it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body…

它對于大腦就像維他命D對于身體一樣必不可少……

譯文：

“閑散不僅僅是一次假期、一種享受或一個惡習(xí)；它對于大腦就像維他命D對于身體一樣必不可少……矛盾的是，閑散對于完成任何工作都是必需的”，他提出。