英语长难句，一直都是英语阅读与理解的难点。长难句的出处，一般出现在整篇阅读理解当中。本文精选10年以来历年各校考博英语真题卷之中的精品阅读理解，将其中经典长难句分选取整理汇编，并对长难句进行翻译，让大家可以更方便对长难句进行理解记忆。
 
2013年阅读真题
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1. In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioral ads? Or should they have explicit permission?
 
译文：在过去几周里，一场争论说明了这种精细的信息对于广告商的价值：广告商是否可以认为用户愿意被跟踪并接收行为广告？还是说广告商应该获得用户的明确许可？
 
2. DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for windows 8-though the firm has compared some of its other products favorably with Google's on that count before.
 
译文：DNT似乎并不是微软Windows 8系统的最大卖点，尽管微软的其他产品在这一方面优于谷歌。
 
2014年阅读真题
 
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1. The Heart of the Matter," the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.
 
译文：美国人文与科学院（AAAS）刚刚发布的研究报告《问题的核心》值得称赞，因为其肯定了人文学科和社会科学对巩固和繁荣美国自由民主的重要性。
 
2. In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by "federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others" to "maintain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education."
 
译文：2010年，美国国会的重要民主党人和共和党人向美国人文与科学院致信，要求其制定可以被"联邦、州和地方政府，大学，机构，教育工作者，个人捐助者及其他人"采纳的措施，以"使国家在人文学科和社会学科的学术研究及教育方面继续保持卓越的地位"。
 
3. To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.
 
译文：为了激励创新和竞争，该报告呼吁增加科研收入，精心设计调理清晰的课程，以提高学生在21世纪解决问题的能力和有效沟通的能力，呼吁增加对教师的投入，鼓励学者应用他们的研究来应对如今的巨大挑战。