考研英语每日经典长难句分析 2018.11.17

We don’t have to learn how to be mentally healthy; it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone.

· 词的处理 ·

mental health 精神健康，心理健康

birthright / ˈbə:θrait / n. 与生俱来的权利

mentally / ˈmentəli / adv. 精神上地

build into 使成为组成部分heal / hi:l / vt. 使康复

mend / mend / vt. 修补，修复

· 句子翻译分析 ·

We don't have to learn how to be mentally healthy; it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend, a broken bone

译：我们不必学习如何保持健康的心理;它与生俱来，正如我们的身体知道如何让伤口痊愈，如何让骨折好转。

1.前半句“We don't have to learn how to be mentally healthy,” 可直译为：我们没有必要学习如何做到心理健康;

2.“it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend, a broken bone”为被动句，in the same way 译为：正如或以同样的方式;that 引导定语从句，修饰in the same way …