2018考研英語(yǔ)長(zhǎng)難句解析（60）

Unlike the east coast, with its party machines and opaque movements of money, California’s love of direct democracy, which weakens parties and allows individuals to be recalled from office, was supposed to keep politicians honest.
    詞匯突破：
    opaque 不透明的
    direct democracy直接民主。指公民直接參與、討論、決定和管理國(guó)家與社會(huì)事務(wù)的民主形式。
    be recalled from office 被彈劾
    長(zhǎng)難句解析：
    主干識(shí)別： California’s love of direct democracy was supposed to keep politicians honest.
    其他成分： Unlike the east coast, 狀語(yǔ)
    with its party machines and opaque movements of money 狀語(yǔ)(原因)
    its=east coast’(指代一般是往前指代)
    which weakens parties and allows individuals to be recalled from office 定語(yǔ)從句修飾主語(yǔ)(California’s love of direct democracy)
    參考譯文： 加州與東部沿海各州是不一樣的，因?yàn)樵跂|部有政黨的機(jī)器和不透明的資金流動(dòng)，而加州對(duì)于直接民主的摯愛(ài)削弱了各黨派的力量，使個(gè)人能直接被彈劾，進(jìn)而被認(rèn)為能使政客們保持誠(chéng)實(shí)。