路透社这篇对神州十三号发射的英文报道首段写得不错，一个长句就把新闻事件中最重要的几个因素写清楚了（时间、地点、人物、事件）：

China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts - two men and one woman - to the core module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longest orbit for Chinese astronauts.

考研英语近十五年真题长难句总结 77 2009text2
Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage，either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA，which is passed down only from mothers.
·分析：主干：most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage

主语：most ancestry testing

谓语：considers

宾语：a single lineage

a single lineage的同位语：either the…from mothers，用either…or…连接两个并列部分

定语从句：which is passed down only from mothers，修饰mitochondrial DNA
·译文：但是大多数血统鉴定只考虑单一的谱系，要么只考虑遗传自父亲的男性遗传的Y染色体，要么只考虑由母亲遗传的线粒体DNA。

#贝壳田园红学社[超话]#
90.
逍遥法外
walk off scot-free（霍克斯译）
go scot-free（杨宪益译）

➣ 雨村听了大怒道：“岂有这样放屁的事！打死人命就白白的走了，再拿不来的！”（第四回 薄命女偏逢薄命郎 葫芦僧乱判葫芦案）

➣ ‘This is monstrous!’ said Yu-cun in a towering rage. ‘Am I to understand that a man can be beaten to death and the murderer walk off scot-free with nobody lifting a finger to arrest him?’（霍克斯译本）

➣ “This is a scandal!” fumed Yucun. “How can men commit a murder and go scot-free?”（杨宪益译本）
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