2018考研英語長難句分析指導(dǎo)（七）

　　But even more important，it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past，for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago.

　　結(jié)構(gòu)分析:句子的框架是it was the farthest that…。但I(xiàn)t was…that…在本句中不是強(qiáng)調(diào)句型。it是指上句中所提到的150億年前形成的巨大云團(tuán)(a strip of enormous cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth);that引導(dǎo)的應(yīng)是一個(gè)定語從句，修飾先行詞the farthest。for引導(dǎo)的是表示原因的分句，分句中還有that引導(dǎo)的定語從句，修飾the patterns and structure。

　　譯文：但更重要的是，這是科學(xué)家們所能觀測到的有關(guān)過去的最為遙遠(yuǎn)的景象，因?yàn)樗麄兛吹降氖?50億年前宇宙云的形狀和結(jié)構(gòu)。