As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.(2011英语一text 1)
重点词汇:description, director, orchestra, hitherto, faint
重点短语:struck at
解析:一开始为由“as”引导的状语从句,该从句的又包含一个由“that”引导的宾语从句,该句主语为代词“that”,谓语为“seems”,宾语为 “some Times readers”。
翻译:据一个由古斯塔夫马勒(Gustav Mahler)和皮埃尔布列兹(Pierre Boulez)等音乐家领衔的管弦乐队的下一任音乐总监的描述,这似乎至少在某些时候给读者留下了淡淡的赞誉。