2021历年考研英语经典长难句复习（九）

　　

　　The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly funded research; both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite increasingly desperate efforts to change them.

　　重点词汇：unstoppably，increasingly，desperate

　　重点短语：claim to

　　解析：

　　该句主语为“The Dutch giant Elsevier”，非限制性定语从句“which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world”对其进行限定修饰。谓语为“made”，宾语为“profits of more than £900m last year”，后面为一个由“while”引导的从句。

　　翻译：

　　荷兰巨头爱思唯尔(Elsevier)声称出版了世界上25%的科学论文，去年盈利超过9亿英镑，而英国大学仅2016年就花了超过2.1亿英镑让研究人员进行自己的公共资助研究;尽管越来越拼命地努力改变这种情况,这两个数字似乎都在不停上涨。