GMAT 阅读长难句50 句+参考译文

GMAT 阅读的考查重点是句子结构和句与句、段与段之间的逻辑关系。GMAT 阅读长难句

都比较长，读起来拗口。在遇到这类句子时，我们不必细细梳理，而要先抓住句子主干。有

些成分根本就对我们做题没有任何影响，倘若浪费太多时间去分析句子的某一处，岂不是浪

费宝贵时间!这实际上就是一个去粗取精，去伪存真的过程。以下 50 个 GMAT 阅读长难句

附带参考译文供大家参考。

1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-

oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their

money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.

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美国的经济是以基本的私有企业和市场导向经济为架构的，在这种经济中，消费者很大程度

上通过在市场上为那些他们最想要的货品和服务付费来决定什么应该被制造出来。

2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with

the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their

incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.

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因此，在美国的经济体系中，个体消费者的需求与商人试图最大化其利润的欲望和个人想最

大化其收入效用的欲望相结合，一起决定了什么应该被制造，以及资源如何被用来制造它们。

3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend

to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit

more consumers to buy the product.

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另一方面，如果大量制造某种商品导致其成本下降，那么这就有可能增加卖方和制造商能提

供的供给，而这也就会反过来降低价格并允许更多的消费者购买产品。

4. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of

productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product

or to make a free contract with another private individual.

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在美国经济中，私有财产的概念不仅包含对生产资源的所有权，也指其他一些特定的权利，

如确定一个产品价格和与另一个私人个体(经济单位) 自由签定合同的权利。

5. At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employers are the

most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly. And they also

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