文章背景:现在sleep disorders的人越来越多,而且平均年龄也呈下降的趋势,就是越来越多年轻人存在失眠问题,很多人的失眠,主要原因是压力过大,噪音,不良的生活方式,比如过度使用手机,还有一些是由于身体的疾病。下面我们分析一下这个句子:
While some sleep disorders may simply be an unpleasant fact of life for many people, others - such as inability to fallasleep and rising excessively early or far too late - may be caused by undiagnosed physical illnesses, so people with those problems should seek medical advice, according to Sun, from Peking University Sixth Hospital.
A doctor treats a patient with a sleep disorder at Peking University Sixth Hospital in Beijing.北京第六医院的医生正在给睡眠有问题的病人治疗
词汇突破:
disorder n.混乱;失调
unpleasant adj. 不愉快的
inability n. 没有能力
excessively adv. 过度地
undiagnosed adj. 为确诊的
seek vt. 寻求
结构分析:
主干:others - (such as inability to fall asleep and rising excessively early or far too late )- may be caused by undiagnosed physical illnesses,其中的such as 是解释说明其它的哪些睡眠问题;
让步状语从句:While some sleep disorders may simply be an unpleasant fact of life for many people 这里的while不是当…….时候的意思,而是虽然…….但是的意思;
结果状语从句:so people with thoseproblems should seek medical advice,
参考译文:根据北京大学第六医院的孙医生所说,虽然睡眠失常可能对很多人而言只是一个不愉快的生活事件,但也有一些比如不能入睡和起得太早或太晚可能是由未确诊的身体疾病导致的,所以有这些问题的人应该去寻求医生的帮助。








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