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【难句】1. In each case the pattern is the same: young people adopt a new form of entertainment, older people are spooked by its unfamiliarity and condemn it, but eventually the young grow up and the new medium becomes accepted at which point another example appears and the cycle begins again. 【结构分析】 以but为切入点，得到并列结构 ， ，but and 即young people , older people , but eventually the young and 其中第二个并列结构older people are spooked by its unfamiliarity and condemn it中又由连词and并列两个谓语。句末使用了介词提前的定语从句，其中which指代上文的一整句the new medium becomes accepted，与at一起作从句的时间状语，其中从句中又由and并列两个分句another example appears和 the cycle begins again。 【参考译文】上述每一个实例都有着相同的模式：年轻人接受了一种新的娱乐形式，年长的人因陌生而受惊，于是对其批评指责。最终，年轻人长大成人，于是新媒体被社会承认 此时，另一种娱乐形式出现，循环模式再次开始。 【难句】2. If you are a person, as I am, who is perfectly delighted for the thick people to go happily about their thick people s business, but who also believes in elites not only believes in them, but thinks they ought to be cherished, that the Today programme and Newsnight, as it were, are more worthy of our licence fee than thick people s television, regardless of audience figures then the whole subject becomes complicated. | 
