2018屠屠考研英語長難句 一日一句(105)

105. The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.

【句式分析】

該句的主幹是The paid manager …was in … relation with …, but …he had … knowledge …，是but連接的轉折關係的兩個分句。前一分句的主語The paid manager 後是現在分詞結構對其進行解釋。but 後的分句的主幹是he had knowledge，which引導的定語從句對knowledge進行修飾；now passing away 則是對the old family business的修飾成分。

知識點補充：pass away意思是“停止，消逝”。如：Lots of wise old men were killed and lots of wisdom pass away with them.（許多有才智的老人被殺害，大量的智慧財富亦隨之一起消失）。

【詞彙】
have familiar knowledge of… 對…有熟悉的瞭解
patriarchal adj. 家族式的

【中文賞析】
代表公司經營的經理與工人以及工人需求的關係更加直接，但甚至他也不像正在被淘汰的舊式家族企業的家長制中的僱主那樣熟悉瞭解工人的情況。