确切数字
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it.
1. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.
报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供一些无关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。
语言点1:句子结构分析:of newspapers and magazines为介词短语，作editors的定语。To provide their readers with unimportant facts and statisics为不定式短语，作状语。
语言点2:重要写作短语总结:描述做某事的状态
Go to extermes to do sth. 做某事走极端
Carry sth. To extremes 做某事很过分
Take a lot of risks doing sth. 冒险做某事
2. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.
去年一位记者受一家有名的杂志委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。
语言点1:well-known为复合形容词，修饰magazine。
语言点2:instruct sb. to do sth.表示“指示/吩咐某人做某事”，句中用的是这一短语的被动语态形式。
3. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it.
稿子寄来后，编辑看了第一句话就拒绝予以发表。
语言点1:句子结构分析:when引导时间状语从句，说明编辑接到文稿后的反应。And并列连接读稿和拒绝发表两件事情。It指代article。
语言点2:间接否定的说法总结:
Refuse to do sth.=do not want to do sth,
Fail to do sth,=do not do sth.
Object to doing sth.=do not agree to do sth.
