每天一句：2015考研英语第五十六句

今天是经济学人最新的文章。先读，然后回答一个问题：
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# A& m, u2 Q2 e# h" A& M- o根据这两句话的表述，议会中各党派忙着废除法律是好事还是坏事 ? 老玩法，过千给解析！不想等的明天来！新版《时文精析》已经出来了，大家可以咨询当地文都老师（这本书不是教材所以需要自行购买，除非当地做活动赠送。）
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( o, ]/ M/ a! j. b4 M/ zSince Britain’s politicians seem incapable of passing any useful new laws, they should occupy themselves in scrapping some useless old ones. If, in a few years’ time, parties campaigned as much on the laws they scrapped as those they created, this idle parliament would have turned out to be rather radical--- not to mention more useful.
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' @  @3 y. [, V% [9 P词汇突破：1.scrap 废除（法律，规定）
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" S( G2 n* d7 H0 a$ J5 b1 B2.Campaign 查字典是竞选的意思，但是一定要注意下面两个短语的意义。
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, \2 g9 {! z( w$ U1 vCampaign to do sth 努力做某事；


Campaign on sth 为某事而努力；
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3. idle parliament 无所事事的议会
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4. radical 反传统的；创新的，革新的；进步的


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6.rather=very

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( l5 O2 I0 M* t6 k2 h0 t; D  M9 z句子解析：Since Britain’s politicians seem incapable of passing any useful new laws, they should occupy themselves in scrapping some useless old ones.
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参考译文：因为英国的政客们似乎没有能力通过任何有用的法律，那么他们就应该让自己着手于废除一些没用的旧法律。
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If, in a few years’ time, parties campaigned as much on the laws they scrapped as those they created, this idle parliament would have turned out to be rather radical--- not to mention more useful.

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in a few years’ time 时间状语
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If parties campaigned as much on the laws they scrapped as those they created,条件状语从句；
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- g& ]& f& r( Y; o& X2 ^3 K; mas much ...as 的本意就是像...一样；
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! t! b  j! ^0 Z但是句子长了以后怕大家理不清楚的，所以：


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  M" h" R3 G9 O这样的句子我习惯这样拆分理解：

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parties campaigned as much on the laws they scrapped as those they created =
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Parties campaigned on the laws they scrapped and Parties campaigned on those（=laws）they created.

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. L) `4 D, u9 \1 S$ r& P9 ?( l/ ~) M如果各党派既能为废除法律而努力，又能为制定法律而努力；


" t! ?6 A' N  Z- i& M" a8 x9 d（如果各党派能像废除法律一样为制定法律而努力）
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this idle parliament would have turned out to be rather radical--- not to mention more useful.
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那么这个无所事事的议会就会彻底革新，更不用说变得更有用了。
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所以：政党忙于废除法律是好事！
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