谈及插入语从句在这里就会自然的提出两个问题。第一，间隔的位置一般位于什么哪里?第二，插入语一般由什么东西构成? }_0?S0<#
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1) 主谓分隔：Rose, a young American poet, is brilliant. (被同位语隔开) J @"wJEF
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2) 复合谓语分隔：You might at least offer to help. (被状语隔开) ' /b,3:
3) 动宾分隔：They estimated in the newspaper the costs of health care.(被状语隔开) 8;p6~&).C~
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比如，What is hard to establish is whether the productivity revolution that the business assume they are presiding over is for real.中they are presiding over 就是一个主谓结构的插入语，隔开了主谓部分。 y .S0 ^
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另外，这种情况在翻译真题出的频率也很高：Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind.在这里in its strongest form这个介词短语讲定于从句的引导词与定从隔开了。 i5|A\ W v"
自然而然，第二个问题来了，到底什么东西做插入语呢? +f+x3OMX3
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首先要说明一点就是插入语的成分问题，它是一个对句子的内容补充、添加、限制或者解释说明，并不是句子的独立语法成分，在阅读时可以跳读来把握句子整体结构。 @8|- C
一般说来由以下三个层面来做插入语， jr*A1y
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第一从词的层面比如副词：consequently, however,等。This view, however, seems to be wrong. tn6\0_5n
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如不定式短语to tell you the truth, to be frank等，或者for example也是 JE9|;A
Mr. McWhorter’s academic specialty is language history and change, he sees the gradual disappear of “whom”, for example, to be natural……这个地方for example 所处的位置阻碍了同学们对于这个宾语和宾补的理解，增加了该句的难度，而这一点往往是考研的重点。 fa/
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第三个层面就是句子层面了，比如as we know it, what we call it 9,82Uta
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