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今日长难句

Instead of including that paragraph, she added one that described Lengel’s crabbed response to the girls so that she could lead up to the A & P “policy” he enforces.（阅读理解Part B. 2008）

crabbed / ˈkræbid; kræbd / adj.暴躁的；乖戾的

response / riˈspɔns / n.反应；响应；回答

lead up to 导致；逐渐引到(某一个话题)

enforce / inˈfɔ:s / v.强制执行；强制实施；强迫

结构分析

你需要知道

以下情况that可以省略：(1) that引导宾语从句时，可以省略。(2) that在定语从句中作宾语的时候，可以省略。

翻译

她没有保留这一段，而是增加了描写兰格尔对女孩的恶劣态度的一个段落，这样她就能够渐渐引入兰格尔推行的A&P“政策”。

预告8.27长难句

He believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations.（翻译. 2008）