原文句子取自于托福高分120上第六篇 early childhood development
Emerging from amongst the parochial and savage child-rearing practices promulgated during the dark age,John Locke's expansion of the metaphor of the child as "tabula rasa"(or,literally "blank state")forms what is popularly regarded as one of the earliest empirical attempts to understand the psychological processes of intellectual and emotional growth experienced by humans during the early childhood.
首先需要指出,你的这个段落中有个位置是错误的as "tabula rasa"(or,literally "blank state")forms 【what 】is popularly regarded 中的 what 需要去掉,否则这句话就没有谓语了。
句子结构详解:
Emerging from amongst the parochial and savage child-rearing practices promulgated during the dark age 【是整句话的原因状语】
该段落中包含以下内容:
a. Emerging from amongst the parochial and savage child-rearing practices【状语的主干部分】
b. (parochial and savage child-rearing practices) promulgated during the dark age【过去分词做()内短语的定语】
主句部分:
a. John Locke's expansion of the metaphor of the child as "tabula rasa"(or,literally "blank state")forms 【句子主语】 属于臃肿的复合名词结构词组
b. is popularly regarded as 【句子谓语】整个句子中最简单的部分。
c. as one of the earliest empirical attempts 【句子的宾语】
d. to understand the psychological processes of intellectual and emotional growth experienced by humans during the early childhood.【该部分用不定式结构做 C 中 attempts 的补语】
e. experienced by humans during the early childhood.【该部分用过去分词短语做psychological processes of intellectual and emotional growth 的定语】
句子大意:源自中世纪(dark age)狭隘,野蛮养孩子的经验,约翰。洛克【英国著名的哲学家) (1632-1704)】丰富了其孩子出生时是如同白纸的隐喻。人们普遍认为他的这种比喻是最早尝试理解人类在孩提早期体会到的智力和情感成长的心理过程。
关于约翰·洛克(John Locke,1632年8月29日~1704年10月28日) 他是全面系统地阐述宪政民主基本思想的第一位作家。他的思想深刻地影响了美国的开国元勋及法国启蒙运动中的许多主要哲学家。
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