2017考研英语***老师每日一句：第76句

This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of

exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the

bottom.

（这个句子能充分体现中英文之间的差异。）

昨天句子的解析：

Yet despite self-congratulatory rhetoric about being “the envy of the world,” a disheartening proportion of higher education gets failing grades when it comes to dealing with that apathy toward learning.

词汇突破：1.self-congratulatory rhetoric 自吹自擂的说辞

2.the envy of the world 让世人羡慕

3.disheartening 令人沮丧

4.failing grades 不及格的分数

5.apathy 冷漠

确定主干： a disheartening proportion of higher education gets failing grades

a disheartening proportion 令人沮丧的比例，

这样翻译出来也可以只是会很别扭；

其实令人沮丧的比例=令人沮丧的是，大部分的…（在考场上你可能想不到，这都是经验，没事，我这个老司机多带带你就好了。）

切分成分：1.Yet despite self-congratulatory rhetoric about being “the envy of the world,” 状语

          2. when it comes to dealing with that apathy toward learning. 状语

           （when it comes to…当谈论到…的时候;这是一个很重要的写作句型。）

独立成句：1. Yet despite self-congratulatory rhetoric about being “the envy of the world,”

（self-congratulatory rhetoric 在翻译的时候可以转译为动词：自吹自擂为…，所以这里可以独立成句）

  然而，尽管自吹自擂为世人所羡慕，

2. when it comes to dealing with that apathy toward learning.

  在对待学习漠不关心这件事情上

参考译文: 然而，尽管自吹自擂为世人所羡慕，但是令人沮丧的是，在对待学习漠不关心这件事情上，大部分的高等教育只能拿到不及格的分数。