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长句的结构分析 It was our view that the United States could be effective in both the tasks outlined by the President – that is, of ending hostilities as well as of making a contribution to a permanent peace in the Middle East – if we conducted ourselves so that we could remain in permanent contact with all of these elements in the equation. (News from Foreign Agencies and Press) Just advanced by the Russians and later picked up and made much of by certain American writers, was the claim that U-2 pilots were worried that if the device had to be used the CIA had rigged it in such a way that it would explode prematurely, thus eliminating , in one great blast, all incriminating evidence, planes and pilot. In that infinitesimal fraction of time, inconceivable and immeasurable, during which the first atomic bomb converted a small part of its matter into the greatest burst of energy released on earth up to that time, Prometheus had broken his bonds and brought a new fire down to earth, a fire three million times more powerful than the original fire he snatched from the gods for the benefit of man some five hundred thousand years ago. Of course I know that one so morally deformed is no less to be pitied than a physical cripple; but in our pitying let us drop a tear, too, for the men who are striving to carry on a great enterprise, whose working hours are not limited by the whistle, and whose hair is fast turning white through the struggle to hold in line dowdy indifference, slipshod imbecility, and the heartless ingratitude which but for their enterprise, would be both hungry and homeless.。 [参考译文]当然，我知道像他这样心理上不正常的人同身体上有残障的人一样值得我们同情。不过在我们同情他们时，别忘了还有另外一些，他们苦心经营着大企业，别人下班了，他们仍在工作。心不在焉的、懒散的、愚蠢的、忘恩负义的员工让他们伤透脑筋，他们的头发在日复一日的操劳中逐渐变灰、变白。若是没有他的企业，那些员工就要饿肚子并且无家可归