托福长难句分析:老师灌输知识
The teachers who took part in the program also told me of their worries that they might be force-feeding their pupils information rather than stimulating the discussion necessary to ensure they grasped the importance to them of what they were being taught.
【参考译文】参与节目的老师们还告诉我,他们担心自己可能是在向学生强行灌输知识与信息,而不是激励他们讨论,以此保证他们能掌握他们所学知识的要领。
【结构分析】本句成分复杂。主语The teachers 后跟who引导的定语从句who took part in the program also told me of their worries…作修饰语,关系代词who在从句中作主语。told后我们可以认为是双宾语(对象+内容),直接宾语部分their worries后跟that引导的名词性从句that they might be force feeding their pupils information rather than stimulating the discussion necessary to ensure…说明worries的具体内容。ensure后面的宾语是一个省略了引导词that的宾语从句they grasped the importance to them of…,grasped的宾语the importance of…被不定式结构to them分隔,of构成的介宾短语的宾语由what引导的名词性从句充当,且从句使用了被动语态的现在进行时。