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考研英语真题长难句详细解析 1. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of double effect, a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects -- a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen -- is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. 【译文】尽管裁决认为，宪法没有赋予医生帮助病人自杀的权利，然而最高法庭实际上却认可了医疗界的双效原则，这个存在了好几个世纪的道德原则认为，如果某种行为具有双重效果，那么，只要行为实施只是想达到好的效果，这个行为就是可以允许的。 【析句】复杂的长句首先抓主干，Although it ruled that...suicide, the Court in effect supported that the medical principle of double effect is permissible if the actor ...effect。先看although引导的让步状语从句，ruled后有一个that引导的宾语从句;再看主句，主句中的主句是the Court supported that...，supported后也是宾语从句，但要注意，宾语从句中，a centuries-old moral principle是主语the medical principle of double effect的同位语，同位语中holding that...是现在分词作定语相当于which holds;破折号之间是插入语，对two effects做进一步的解释说明。最后if引导的条件状语从句是主句中的从句。 | 
