(25)大学英语四级、考研英语长难句分析

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

(难点：独立主格结构作同位语)

必背语汇：

collapse v. 倒塌、晕倒

induce v. 引起、导致

heart attack 心脏病发作

may have done 可能已经做过

hold off 抵挡

你的翻译_________

句子分析

本句为复合句中的时间状语从句。

主句为Youmay have heardsome of the fashion industry horror stories(你可能听说过时装行业的一

些可怕的事)。Horror stories有两个独立主格结构作其同位语。分别是modelseating tissues or cotton balls [to hold off

hunger]（模特们吃纸巾或棉球来抵挡饥饿）和modelscollapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks(模特们因饥饿引发心脏病发作而倒下)，其后有时间状语从句just seconds after they step off。

句子翻译

你可能听说过一些时装业的恐怖的事：模特们吃纸巾或棉球来抵挡饥饿，模特们在离开T台几秒钟后因饥饿引发心脏病发作而倒下。