Day 4

英文重现

Marine biologist Sara Gottlieb says,“Think of menhaden as the liver of a bay.Just as your body needs its liver to filter out toxins,ecosystems also need those natural filters.”

——SAT 2009年1月题，Section 3

解析

“(just)as…,so/also…”这个句型意思是“正如……一样，……也……”，连接两个不同的句子表示两种情况的类比，类似的例子如：

Just as French people enjoy their wine,so the British enjoy their beer.（正如法国人喜欢他们的葡萄酒一样，英国人也喜欢他们的啤酒。）

在这个句型中“so/also”常常可以省略，比如上面的例子也可以说“Just as French people enjoy their wine,the British enjoy their beer”。类似的表达方式还有“A is to B as C is to D”和“A is to B what C is to D”，意思是“A之于B，犹如C之于D”，例如：

Parks are to the city as lungs are to the body.（公园之于都市，犹如肺之于人。）

词意辨析

参考翻译

海洋生物学家Sara Gottlieb说：“将鲱鱼想象成海湾的肝脏，就像你的身体需要肝脏来排出毒素一样，生态系统同样需要这些天然的过滤器。”

实战演练

Your life may very well depend on a fish that few have heard of-the menhaden.No one actually eats menhaden because they are oily,foul,and packed with bones.But they can be ground up and used as a high-protein feed for chickens,pigs,and cattle.(Pop some barbecued wings in your mouth and part of what you're eating was once menhaden.)Furthermore,menhaden are filter feeders that help control the growth of algae devastating to coastal fisheries.Marine biologist Sara Gottlieb says,“Think of menhaden as the liver of a bay.Just as your body needs its liver to filter out toxins,ecosystems also need those natural filters.”

The quotation in lines“Think of…filters”contains an example of which rhetorical device?

(A)Personification

(B)Understatement

(C)Wordplay

(D)Paradox

(E)Analogy

答案：E

答案解析

本题问的是引号中的内容采用了什么修辞手法，引号中的内容用了“如同A一样，B也……”句型，这是很常用的表示两者情况相似的类比句型，所以是一个很明显的类比，答案选E。选项A“拟人化”；选项B“低调陈述”；选项C“双关”；选项D“悖论”。