2. There is no complete inventory of positions or people in federal service at this level. The lack may be explained by separate agency statutes and personnel systems, diffusion among so many special services, and the absence of any central point (short of President himself) with jurisdiction over all upper-level personnel of the government.

　　分析：介词by 后面的separate…personnel systems, diffusion…special services和the absence of…the government为三个并列成分。表示缺少详细记载的原因。句中一些词要转译。

译文：这个级别的联邦政府官员和职位没有完整的记载。对此（缺少详细记载）所做的解释可能是，各部门的条例和人事制度各不相同，分布的特殊服务部门太多并缺少一个中心机构（总统本人除外）来管理所有的政府高级官员。

　　3. He refuses to consider sufficiently the wants of the customer, who must buy, not the thing he desires but the thing the English gentleman wants to sell.

　　分析：动词consider 后面的宾语是the wants of the customer。 非限定性定语从句who must buy… 修饰the customer，not the thing …but the thing…是并列成分。

　　译文：他们不肯充分考虑顾客的需要，顾客必须买的不是他们所希望买的东西，而是英国绅士想要卖的东西。

4. Green, hilly, with abundant trees, it was a beautiful country, the Virginia-Kentucky border territory——or would have been, except for the mines.

　　分析：和it was a beautiful country 并列的分句(it) would have been是虚拟语气，后面省略了a beautiful country。Green, hilly, with abundant trees修饰a beautiful country，放在主句前是为了强调。

　　译文：一片翠绿，丘陵起伏，林木茂盛，弗吉尼亚州和肯塔基州接界的地区是一片美丽的山野——要不是有煤矿的话，理应如此。

　　5. The lack of insistence on personal honor, the surface informality, the disparaging responses to compliments, and willingness to admit mistakes are part of the egalitarian tradition, as are the Americans’ pride in what they have been able to achieve and their criticism of things that fall short of perfection.

　　分析：该句的主句由四个并列的名词短语做主语，即The lack of insistence…,the surface informality, the disparaging responses…和willingness to admit mistakes。另外，值得一提的是， as 引导的比较状语从句使用了倒装语序。这是为了保持句子平衡。

　　译文：美国人一方面对所取得的成就感到自豪，一方面又对未臻完美的事物进行批评，这是其平等主义传统的一部分；同样，他们不坚持个人的面子，不拘表面的礼节，对别人的称赞采取自贬的态度，以及愿意承认错误，也是其平等主义传统的一部分。

　　6. The standardized educational or psychological tests that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in Congress. 　

分析：该句中，to aid in 后面跟了四个并列的动名词，而四个并列的动名词后又跟了三个并列的宾语。

　　译文：广泛用来借以对学生、雇员和军事人员进行选拔、分类、分配任务或提拔的教育或心理方面的标准化测试，最近受到了书报杂志，甚至国会的抨击。

　　7. That is why women remain children their whole life long: never seeing anything but what is quite close to them, clinging to the present moment, taking appearance for reality, and preferring trifles to matters of the first importance.

　分析：该句中，四个现在分词短语构成并列结构，做状语。对前面的表语从句进行补充说明。

　　译文：那就是为什么妇女一生都不成熟：从来都只看见眼前的事情，都只抓住眼前的一刻，都把表面当本质，都倾心于琐事而放过至关重要的事。

　　8. But since the consequences of poverty are related to powerlessness, not to the absolute supply of money available to the poor, and since the amount of power purchasable with a given supply of money decreases as a society acquires a larger supply of goods and services, the solution of raising the incomes of the poor is likely, unless accompanied by other measures, to be ineffective in a wealthy society.

　　分析：该句有两个并列的由and 连接的原因状语从句，都是由since引导，available to the poor修饰money, purchasable with a given supply of money修饰the amount of power。主句中的从句unless accompanied by other measures分割了is likely和to be ineffective in a wealthy society。 翻译公司 (责任编辑：世博翻译公司)