長難句練習：

1.These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private, part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy.

2.Then came the hot iron: news of a series of measures to shore up the bank’s capital base, among them investments from sovereign-wealth funds in Singapore and the Middle East.

3.The change of approach may be on the advice of auditors and regulators but it is more likely to reflect a desire by UBS’s bosses to avoid months of speculation about the bank’s exposure, something that Marcel Rohner, the chief executive, described as “distracting”.

長難句解析：

1.主體句式：These letters are filled with his wrestling.

結構分析：這是一個簡單句，難點在于最后兩個形容詞詞組的成分（desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy）。這兩個形容詞詞組用來修飾前面的名詞creature, 而creature后面緊跟著的that 引導的從句也是修飾它的定語從句。

句子譯文：這些信中處處都顯現出休斯因為自己成為半私人、半公開這樣一個人物反復掙扎的心理，他渴望將自己奉獻給文字，但又時時受到私人空間受到侵襲的威脅。

2.主體句式：Then came the hot iron.

結構分析：這是一個有復雜同位語的一個簡單句。news of …是前面the hot iron的同位語，to shore up the bank’s capital base是不定式短語作定語修飾前面的measures, 而后面among them …也是用來修飾measures，具體介紹其中的一些措施。

句子譯文：緊接著就來了hot iron ：報道有一系列的措施來支持銀行的資本基礎，其中就有新加坡和中東的君主財富基金。

3.主體句式： The change of approach may be… but …

結構分析：這是一個并列句，but 引導的分句比較復雜，to avoide …不定式短語作前面a desire的定語，而something that…是a desire的同位語，該同位語中又包含了一個定語從句。

句子譯文：方法改變可能是審計員或調節員建議的，但更反映了UBS高層的不愿數月都預計銀行曝光的意愿，這個被首席執行官Marcel Rohner形容為“轉移注意力（的方案）”。

附：經典寫作佳句背誦：

An increasing number of people are beginning to realize that education is not complete with graduation.

越來越多的人開始意識到教育不能隨著畢業而結束。

When it comes to education， the majority of people believe that education is a lifetime study.

說到教育，大部分人認為其是一個終生的學習。