我们可以从《样题》(一)的英译汉部分找一个句子为例,看具体应该怎样做。该题原文第二句是: Farm experts know that it has taken hundreds of years of breeding different varieties of corn to get the kinds we have today. 理解之初,我们可以从头看起。首先是Farm experts know,这是一个主谓结构,看起来是句子的主句;that it has taken hundreds of years,从连词that来看,它是名词从句;是主句中谓语动词know的宾语;of breeding different varieties of corn为介词短语,是hundreds of years的定语;to get the kinds是不定式短语,从前面的that it has taken……来看,这个不定式短语才是该句子的真正主语,it只是形式主语;最后的we have today又是一个句子,它只能是定语从句,用来修饰the kinds。到这里,全句的意思就清楚了,剩下的便是如何将它整理成文字了。