【考研英语长难句】历年考研英语试题长难句练习及详细分析(30)

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.

重点词汇：explosion，novel，domain

重点短语：appliy to，sort out

解析：该句主语为“OrinKerr”，谓语为“compares.....with”，宾语为“the explosion and accessibilityof digital information in the 21st century”，和“the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity ofl ife in the 20th”。冒号后面为前面所述的解释说明，里面包含两个小份句，第二个分句内包含一个宾语从句即“how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now”。

翻译： 法律教授奥林克尔(Orin Kerr)将21世纪数字信息的爆炸式增长和可访问性与20世纪将汽车作为一种虚拟生活必需品的相比较：当时法官们必须为乘客用车这一新的个人领域制定新的规则;他们现在必须弄清楚第四修正案是如何适用于数字信息的。