19考研英語：屠屠長難句（六十三）

1每日一句長難句
Some great manufacturers and great service companies may have become too lean in their relentless drive to reduce costs, outsourcing not just their non-core activities but essential ones too.

2【結構分析】
本句是一個簡單句，首先分析一下結構：逗號前爲主句，Some great manufacturers and great service companies是主語，may have become是謂語部分， too lean in their relentless drive to reduce costs是表語，其中too…to…結構，句末的現在分詞結構outsourcing not just their non-core activities but essential ones too作伴隨狀語，進一步補充說明reduce costs的具體內容，其中not just…but…爲連接結構。

3【詞彙】
manufacturer 生產商

lean adj.瘦的，貧瘠的，v.傾斜

relentless adj.無情的

in one’s drive to do 驅動做某事
此處翻譯難點：too..to…太…不能…+ lean具有否定意思，因此抵消之後可以理解爲“熱衷於”，與be keen to do同義。
outsource外購

4【參考譯文】
有些大的製造商和服務供應商熱衷於降低成本，不僅把非核心業務外包，而且連核心業務也不放過。

5【明日長難句】
The study shows that nearly half the organizations featured in the Times Top 100 Graduate Employers plan to expand their graduate programs this year, increasing the total number of vacancies available for new graduates by more than 10 percent compared with 2006 recruitment levels.

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