在2015考研暑期復習這段黃金期，同學們可以靜下來心來認真備考各個科目。在這里，考研小編著重為大家分享考研英語暑期復習中長難句如何進行拆分和翻譯。

　　The pendulum began to swing in the postwar era, when Harvard Business School grad Robert McNamara and his "whiz kids" became famous for using mathematical modeling, game theory and complex statistical analysis for the Army Air Corps, doing things like improving fuel-transport times and scheduling more-efficient bombing raids.

　　主干識別：The pendulum began to swing in the postwar era

　　其他成分：when Harvard Business School grad Robert McNamara and his "whiz kids" became famous定語從句主干
　　for using mathematical modeling, game theory and complex statistical analysis for the Army Air Corps, 定語從句中的狀語

　　翻譯點撥：
　　注意對pendulum 的理解：
　　The pendulum has swung back and the American car companies have made dramatic advances in safety...
　　三十年河東，三十年河西，美國汽車公司在安全方面已經取得了巨大進步。
　　The political pendulum has swung in favour of the liberals.
　　政治形勢轉而對自由主義者有利。

　　The political pendulum in American politics swung away from the right, putting an end to the12- year Republican Revolution on Capitol Hill and delivering a sharp rebuke of President Bush and the Iraq war.
　　美國政壇的政治鐘擺從右派轉向，一舉結束共和黨在國會山莊的十二年革命，并對布?？偨y和伊拉克戰爭發出強烈的怒吼。

詞匯點撥：
　　grad 畢業生
　　whiz kids 天才學生
　　mathematical modeling 數學模型
　　game theory 博弈論
　　statistical analysis 數據分析
　　Army Air Corps 陸軍航空隊
　　fuel-transport 加油
　　bombing raids 空襲

　　成分點撥：
　　The pendulum began to swing in the postwar era
　　情況在戰后開始改變

　　再單獨翻譯定語從句：
　　Harvard Business School grad Robert McNamara and his "whiz kids" became famous for using mathematical modeling, game theory and complex statistical analysis for the Army Air Corps,
　　哈佛商學院的畢業生 Robert McNamara和那些天才學生一起因為使用數學模型，博弈論和復雜的數據分析來為陸軍航空隊做事而名噪一時，

　　最后翻狀語：
　　doing things like improving fuel-transport times and scheduling more-efficient bombing raids.
　　翻譯是省略doing things like，直接翻為：他們減少加油的時間并且安排出更有效的空襲。

　　參考譯文：情況在戰后開始改變，哈佛商學院的畢業生 Robert McNamara和那些天才學生一起因為使用數學模型，博弈論和復雜的數據分析來為陸軍航空隊 做事而名噪一時，他們減少了加油所需要的時間并且安排出更有效的空襲。