1、修飾成分(包括定語、定語從句、同位語從句等)多而長。
    Across the court from the Manhattan apartment that I have occupied for the past few years is a dog that often hurls insults into the darkness,a few of which my dog refuses to accept and makes a tart reply.
    2、一些外位語，所謂外位修飾，指從句子結構和內(nèi)容上不起主要信息表達功能的部分。其作用是從語氣和連接上下文等方面進行補充。在翻譯成漢語時，往往可獨立成句，外形上不保留修飾的痕跡。
    Of course,nobody was hurt this time,because we had all been to dinner,none of us being novices excepting Hastings;and he having been informed by the minister at the time that he invited him that in deference to the English custom the had not provided any dinner.