"Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?" Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. "You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?"
首先，无论遇到什么样的句子，第一步就是要找到句子的主干，那么如何截取句子的主干呢？
Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week；而前后两部分则是直接引语， "Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?"和 "You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?"。整个句子中由这三部分构成，总的来说，这是个有直接引语的复杂句。
前一部分直接引语是一个疑问句“Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?”，而后一部分的直接引语为由两个转折关系的句子构成，由连词but在中间进行连接；在第二个直接引语中，考生除了要识别前面的部分外，还需要对but后的这个疑问句进行分析：由情态动词must引导，包括由and这个连词连接的两个并列部分，corrupt our nation和threaten our children as well；且，考生也需要注意到在后面threaten out children as well的主语you被省略了。在这个句子中，除了由and及but作并列词外，在句后的as well也作为并列表达使用，相当于in addition，also，too。
这样一来，考生应该对整个句子的意思就比较容易理解了：参议员Robert Dole上星期质问时代华纳公司高级人员时说：“难道这就是你们要成就的事业吗？你们已经出卖了自己的灵魂，难道你们还非要腐化我们的国家，威胁我们的孩子不成？”
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During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders' meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of society's ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students。
