高中英语必修4MODULE 4 Great ScientistsThe Analysis of the Difficult Sentences
Section 2 The Analysis of the Difficult Sentences
He thought there was only one way to do this—by crossing different species of rice plant, …他认为唯一的办法就是，对不同品种的水稻进行杂交……
注意”— dash 破折号”后面的内容是对”only one way to do this”的补充说明。
2. This was the breakthrough. 这是突破！
“breakthrough”是合成词。合成名词构造法主要有下列八种：
1一千零一夜童话名词+名词，如 daybreak, sunri, hou-keeper, shoe-maker, headache, night-club, pocket-knife, arm-chair, wine-glass, ink-stand, man-rvant, maid-rvant, steamboat, goldsmith, newspaper, lawsuit等。
2按可以组什么词形容词+名词，如 blackboard, commonwealth, highway, stronghold, sweetheart, easy-chair, grandson, blueprint, deadline, high-brow, lazy-bones等。
3动词+名词，如 drawbridge, grindstone, playground, pickpocket, breakfast, cut-throat, makeshift, sing-song, turn-coat, washbasin 等。
4副词虚词+名词，如 afterthought, offshoot, outbreak, byway, bylaw, outpost, overcoat, underclothes, outgrowth, downpour, upkeep, bystander等。
5副词虚词+动词，如 income, outlet, outlook, ont, outfit, upstart, inlet, offspring, outburst, offt等。
新人换旧人6动词+副词，如 die-hard, breakdown, drawback, t-up, break-up, farewell, standstill, feedback等。 吴字五行属什么的
7名词+动名词，如 book-keeping, town-planning, letter-writing, word-building, tiger-hunting, paper-manufacturing, bill-collecting, car-repairing, television-advertising, window-shopping, day-dreaming, photocopying, handwriting等。
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8其他，如
爱国的歌
man-of-war, 画党旗墙裙图片forget-me-not, son-in-law, mother-in-law, commander-in-chief, editor-in-chief, merry-go-round, hide-and-ek, stay-at-home, jack-in-the-box等。
3.As a result of Yuan Longping’s discoveries Chine rice production ro by 47.5 percent in the 1990’s. 袁隆平的发现使得20世纪90年代的中国水稻产量提高了47.5%。
