22考研英语翻译：秋季阶段英语长难句练习及详解（六）

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS’s ultimate overseer—Congress—insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

【例句解析】本句的主干为interest groups exert self-interested pressure on the USPS’s ultimate overseer;其中ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers为后置定语用来修饰限定主语interest groups;Congress为同位语解释说明 the USPS’s ultimate overseer;insisting that…为伴随状语，其中有一个that引导的宾语从句，做insist的宾语;

【例句翻译】而且，从邮政工会到贺卡制造商们的很多利益团体都在施加自我利益的压力给美国邮局的最终监管者—国会—，他们坚称不管邮政其它方面发生什么变化，他们所依赖的现状的放房绵绵需得到保护。