摘要：SAT 阅读长难句（8）注解版（真题部分）
8. Authors who make this their motto, in the name of artistic integrity, can hardly be expected
to tolerate the attitudes of critically acclaimed nineteenth‐century novelists, who believed
that their first duty was to try to seem “pleasant,” and that to do so they must render their
meanings “without an effort to the reader.”
难句类型：复杂修饰+插入语
难词注解：acclaim vt.向…欢呼,为…喝彩
render vt.提供
语法分析：Authors who make this their motto, in the name of artistic integrity, can hardly be
主语 定语 插入语 谓语
expected to tolerate the attitudes of critically acclaimed nineteenth‐century novelists, who
不定式 定语
believed that their first duty was to try to seem “pleasant,” and that to do so they must
从句
render their meanings “without an effort to the reader.”
并列成分
意群训练：Authors who make this their motto, in the name of artistic integrity, can hardly be
expected to tolerate the attitudes of critically acclaimed nineteenth‐century novelists, who
believed that their first duty was to try to seem “pleasant,” and that to do so they must
render their meanings “without an effort to the reader.”
参考译文：将此奉为箴言的作家，就（作品）艺术的完整性的层面，很难容忍19 世纪受
到评论界赞赏的小说家的态度。这些小说家认为自己的首要职责是“愉悦读者”，为实现该
职责，他们必须把作品“不费吹灰之力”地展示给读者。