长难句While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remainscentered on shopping bags and straws, were ignoring the balance of power that implies that as"oonsumers we must shop sustainably , rather than as " citizens" hold our governments and industriesto account to push for real systemic change, ( #i c , 2019, Reading Comprehension, Text 4 )
　　 难句分析词汇点睛
　　straw:吸管;
　　sustainably:可持续性地;
　　biofuel: 生物燃料；
　　难点突破
　　状语从句,定语从句,宾语从句
　　结构图示
　　句子分解
　　句中有五个谓语动同:remains, are ignoring, implies, must shop和hold。根据从句引导词，句子可划分为:
　　A. While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remainscentered on shopping bags and straws
　　while引导让步状语从句,从句的主语为the conversation。arund our enionment and ourresponsibility toward it 为其后置定语, it代指environment,谓语remains是系动词，centered为表语,on shopping bags and straws 是状语。
　　B. we're ignoring the balance of power
　　主句是“主谓宾"句型。
　　C. that implies
　　that引导定语从句,限定the balance of power.
　　D. that as“consumers" we must shop sustainably，
　　定语从句中嵌套that引导的宾语从句,位于动词implies后。
　　E. rather than as “eitizens" hold our govermments and industries to account to push for real .systermie change.
　　rather than引导比较状语从句.前后句子结构一致,因此从句中出现了主语的省略,与as“consumers" we must shop sustainably 共享主语we,补充完整应为as“citizens" we hold our govermments...