As indicated in the graph, the area with the highest increase rate of language students is Asia, which rose from 20 in 2001 to 60 in 2003.
介词短语修饰名词area,译為“增长率最高的地区”。同样,亦可使用定语从句表达:the area which was of the highest increase rate。有型有范兒,形神兼备。不过,使用定语从句时,您得小心先行词which后面的谓语动词的形式,使用过去式还是单数第三人称,心里要有数。否則,就是主谓不一致,无情地破坏了句型的整体审美效果,相当于旗袍从腋下開气儿,远觀之,如同身披门帘儿。
Example-3:
来自国际新闻的复杂信息往往会超出中学生的知识范围。
Information with complicated contents which derives from international news is often beyond the scope of students’ knowledge.