【学府考研“云课堂”每日一句】
As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.
【译文】
通常说来，过去是通向未来大门的钥匙：我们现在已经发现众多塑造了地球历史和物种的长期模式，有足够证据对未来我们的后代所处的环境作出预测。
【析句】
多重复合句，主句为the past holds the key to the future,冒号后阐述具体内容，主谓宾为we have identified enough of the long-term patterns,shaping the history of the planet and our species为现在分词作定语修饰patterns,to make...situation是目的状语，in which则引导定语从句修饰situations。
As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.
【译文】
通常说来，过去是通向未来大门的钥匙：我们现在已经发现众多塑造了地球历史和物种的长期模式，有足够证据对未来我们的后代所处的环境作出预测。
【析句】
多重复合句，主句为the past holds the key to the future,冒号后阐述具体内容，主谓宾为we have identified enough of the long-term patterns,shaping the history of the planet and our species为现在分词作定语修饰patterns,to make...situation是目的状语，in which则引导定语从句修饰situations。
