The facts 确切数字 （第三册第5课）
1. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.
报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供一些无关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。
这句话虽然比较长，但是没有使用任何的从句，只是主、谓、宾比较长而已。
主语：Editors of newspapers and magazines
谓语：provide
宾语：their readers
宾补：unimportant facts and statistics
2. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.
去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。
这句话同样是最基本的句子结构，没有使用任何从句，只是使用了被动语态：
时间状语：Last year
主语：a journalist
谓语：had been instructed to write
宾语：article
然后，用介词 by 说明一下 指挥 journalist 的人，在最后用介词 on 解释一下 article 的内容，句子自然就被扩充得很长。
3. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it.
稿子寄来后，编辑看了第一句话就拒绝予以发表。
这句使用了 when 引导的时间状语从句。
4. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.'
文章的开头是这样的；"几百级台阶通向环绕总统府的高墙。"
在引号的这句话中，使用了 which 引导的定语从句用来对 wall 进行说明。
主句：Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall.
从句：The wall surrounds the president's palace.
5. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
编辑立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。
这个长句同样可以拆分，结构其实很简单，主要是用了一个"动词-ing"句子作状语。
主句：The editor at once sent the journalist a fax.
子句：The editor instruct him to find out sth.
6. The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them.
记者立即出发去核 实这些重要的事实，但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来。
这句话使用了 but 连接两个句子，but 后面表示转折。
句子1：The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts.
句子2：he took a long time to send them.
7. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press.
在此期间，编辑等得不耐烦了，因为杂志马上要付盒子。
这句话使用了 for 连接两个句子，for 后面表示原因。
句子1：the editor was getting impatient.
句子2：the magazine would soon go to press.
8. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply.
他给记者先后发去两份传真，但对方毫无反应。
这句中的 but 用来连接两个并列的谓语 sent 和 received。
9. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired.
于是他又发了一份传真，通知那位记者说，若再不迅速答复，将被解雇。
这句话使用了多种结构把几个句子连在一起：动词-ing形式、that 引导的宾语从句、if 引导的让步状语从句。
主句：He sent yet another fax.
子句1：The fax informed the journalist sth.
子句:（用来说明子句1中的 sth）：If he did not reply soon he would be fired.
10. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.
当记者还是没有回复，编辑无奈，勉强按原样发了稿。
这句话首先用 when 引导一个状语从句，另外，用 as 连接了一个子句用来说明。
主句：the editor reluctantly published the article.
状语从句：the journalist again failed to reply.
as 引导的子句：it had originally been written.
11. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.
一周之后，编辑终于接到了记者的传真。
12. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.
那个可怜的记者不仅被捕了，而且还被送进了监狱。
Not only 放在句首时，后面的句子要用倒装。倒装的意思就是把谓语动语放在主语的前面。原句应该是：
The poor man had been arrested.
因为加了 not only 放在句首，所以把助动词 had 放在主语 the poor man 的前面。
13. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.
不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉编辑，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围墙的1084级台阶时，被抓了起来。
主句：He had at last been allowed to send a fax.
介语从句：He informed the editor sth in the fax.
说明 sth 的从句：He had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.
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