华慧考博-考博英语两个复杂句子的结构分析(四十)

1.  To develop and compete, this country needs more skilled people, more highly motivated people and more people determined to produce a quality product or service.

 【结构分析】句子的主干是“this country needs more skilled people, more highly motivated people and more people”；“determined to produce a quality product or service”为形容词短语充当“more people”的后置定语；“To develop and compete”为不定式短语充当目的状语。

2.  Extraordinary creative activity has been characterized as revolutionary, flying in the face of what is established and producing not what is acceptable but what will become accepted.

 【结构分析】句子的主干是“Extraordinary creative activity has been characterized as revolutionary”；“flying in the face of what is established and producing not what is acceptable but what will become accepted”相当于and连接的并列分词短语来对“Extraordinary creative activity”进行补充说明，其中“what is acceptable but what will become accepted”为what引导的从句充当producing的宾语。