例248　Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country's excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all, the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological.

【结构分析】Among the many shaping factors是个介词短语做状语，修饰整个句子，主语是I，动词是would single out，宾语是个四个并列名词短语，第一个宾语是the country's excellent elementary schools，第二个宾语是a labor force that welcomed the new technology，第三个宾语是the practice of giving premiums to inventors，第四个宾语是the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological。

【亮点回放】此句话的亮点在于四个名词短语做宾语，很壮观，第一个宾语是个名词修饰结构，第二个宾语里面有定语从句，第三个宾语里面有of结构，第四个宾语里面有分词结构。

【核心词汇】

many shaping factors　许多形成因素

elementary schools　小学教育

labor force　劳动者们

giving premiums to inventors　奖励发明者

genius　天赋

nonverbal, "spatial" thinking　非言语的、“空间性的”思考

【参考译文】在许多形成因素当中，我将挑选出这些：这个国家优秀的小学教育；欢迎新技术的劳动者们；奖励发明者的做法；而且最重要的是美国人在对那些技术性事物的非言语的、“空间性的”思考方面的天赋。