每日長難句 9

原句：

Although it ruled / that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, / the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect,” a centuries-old moral principle holding / that an action having two effects /—a good one (that is intended) and a harmful one (that is foreseen)—/ is permissible / if the actor intends only the good effect.

【2002 Text 4】

單詞：

?rule v. 裁決；統(tǒng)治，支配；規(guī)定，管理

?constitutional adj. 憲法的，憲法規(guī)定的，合乎憲法的

?physician-assisted suicide?醫(yī)生協(xié)助病人自殺

?in effect 實(shí)際上

?principle n. 原則，原理；準(zhǔn)則，規(guī)范

?hold v. 認(rèn)為，相信；持有，擁有

?intend v. 打算，計(jì)劃；意指

?foresee v.預(yù)見，預(yù)知(過去式foresaw，過去分詞 foreseen)

?permissible adj. 可允許的，許可的

分析長難句：

找謂語動(dòng)詞：

Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect,” a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects—a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen—is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.

斷開長難句：

①讓步狀語從句: Although it ruled

②賓語從句：that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide

③主句: the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect,” a centuries-old moral principle holding

④賓語從句: that an action having two effects is permissible

⑤定語從句: that is intended

⑥定語從句: that is foreseen

⑦條件狀語從句: if the actor intends only the good effect.

??嵌套結(jié)構(gòu)

{ [ ① (②) ] ③ [④(⑤ ⑥ ⑦) ] }

??分裂結(jié)構(gòu)

??平行結(jié)構(gòu)

a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen

譯文：

盡管它(最高法院)裁定憲法沒有賦予醫(yī)生協(xié)助病人自殺的權(quán)利，但實(shí)際上法院支持“雙重效果”的醫(yī)療原則，這個(gè)存在了好幾個(gè)世紀(jì)的道德原則認(rèn)為，具有雙重效果(希望達(dá)到的好效果和可預(yù)見的壞效果)的行為是可允許的，只要行為實(shí)施者想要的僅僅是好效果。