2022考研英语长难句练习二

The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than f 900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than f 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. (2020英语一Text2)

主句：The Dutch giant Elsevier made profits of more than f 900m last year

Which…world：定语从句修饰The Dutch giant Elsevier;其中produced in the world为Ved短语作后置定语修饰scientific papers

while UK universities alone … their own publicly funded research为while表对比

both figures seem to … efforts to change them为并列句;其中desperate efforts to change them为让步状语

参考译文：

荷兰巨头Elsevier，号称出版了全球25%的科学论文，去年利润超过9亿英镑，而仅英国大学在2016年就花了超过2.1亿英镑让研究人员获得自己的公共资助研究;尽管越来越拼命地努力改变，这两个数字似乎都在不停地上升。