1.My parents, although sympathetic, and sharing my love of music, disapproved of it as a profession.
【难句释义】Although my parents are sympathetic and sharing my love of music, they disapproved of it as a profession.
【难句解析】句子的主干是“My parents disapproved...”,句中“although sympathetic, and sharing my love of music”是形容词和现在分词做状语,修饰“my parents”。
2.My father often said it was only the hardheaded thriftiness of my grandmother that kept the wolf at bay.
【难句释义】My father often said but for the hardheaded thriftiness of my grandmother, my family will get hungry.
【难句解析】kept the wolf at bay意思是“勉强度日”。
3.When I broke away from business, it was against the advice of practically all my friends and family. So conditioned are most of us to the association of success with money that the thought of giving up a good salary for an idea seemed little short of insane.
【难句释义】我脱离商界之举是与所有亲友的忠告相违的,因为我们大多数人习惯把成功与金钱联系在一起,为理想而放弃高薪似乎是发疯。
【难句解析】句中"it"指"I broke away from business","so"指"most of us to ... a good salary for an idea seemed little short of insane","condition"此处做动词,意思是“以...为条件”。