2024考研英语：英语二考题长难句分析(6)

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Sentence 2：And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS’s ultimate overseer -- Congress -- insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service，aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

必备词汇：interest groups利益集团;range from从……到……范围;union联盟;greeting-card贺卡;exert pressure on对……施加压力;ultimate最终的;overseer监督者;Congress国会;status quo现状

主句：interest groups ... exert self-interested pressure on the USPS’s ultimate overseer

后置定语：ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers，V-ing分词短语作后置定语，修饰主语interest groups

同位语：Congress，作ultimate overseer的同位语

伴随状语：insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service,aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected，V-ing分词短语作伴随状语

宾语从句：that whatever else happens to the Postal Service,aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected

主句：aspects of the status quo ... get protected

让步状语从句：whatever else happens to the Postal Service

定语从句：they depend on，省略了that的定语从句修饰先行词the status quo，that在从句中作宾语

翻译：利益团体(从邮政联盟到贺卡生产商)为了自己的利益，给美国邮政管理局的最后的监管者--国会--施加了压力，他们坚持认为，无论美国邮政管理局发生了什么事情，他们所依靠的现在的各个方面都必须得到保护。