华慧考博-考博英语两个复杂句子的结构分析(三十五)
1. The annoyance we feel when faced with noise is the most common outward symptom of the stress building up inside us.
【结构分析】句子的主干为“The annoyance is the most common outward symptom of the stress”;“we feel”为前面省略了关系代词that的从句作“The annoyance”的后置定语;“when faced with noise”为时间状语;“building up inside us”为分词短语作“the stress”的后置定语。
2. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly.
【结构分析】句子的主干为“Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant”,其中that引起其后的部分作表语从句;“whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly”为whose引导的从句作“the infant”的后置定语。