1The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.
主干主语：The phrase “less is more”；谓语：was popularized；施事：by a German（同位语为建筑师密斯）
结构主句为被动结构。a German后接同位语the architect...Rohe。who引导非限制性定语从句，修饰Rohe；从句中like other people associated with the Bauhaus为插入的比较状语，Bauhaus后又有同位语a school of design；emigrated...and took up为并列谓语。
译文“少即是多”这句口号其实最早是由一位德国人——建筑师路德维希·密斯·凡·德·罗——推广开来的。他和其他与包豪斯设计学院有关的人一样，在二战前移居美国，并在美国的建筑院校任职。
考点who引导的非限制性定语从句中插入like比较结构 · 同位语层层嵌套（German→architect→Bauhaus→school）
2Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood – materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.
主干主语：he；谓语：employed；宾语：metal, glass and laminated wood
结构句首Like介词短语作比较状语。破折号后materials为宾语的同位语，其后两个并列的that定语从句（第二个that不可省略），由but连接，对比今昔对材料的认知。
译文和其他现代建筑师一样，他使用金属、玻璃和层压木——这些材料如今我们习以为常，但在20世纪40年代却象征着未来。
考点破折号引出同位语再接并列定语从句 · 第二个that不可省，因与第一个that并列
3The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller – two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet – than those in their older neighbors along the city’s Gold Coast.
主干主语：The apartments；谓语：were；表语：smaller than those...
结构主语后in the elegant towers为地点定语，towers后又有省略关系代词的定语从句Mies built...。for example为插入语。破折号插入对smaller的具体说明。than比较结构中those指代apartments，其后in their older neighbors为定语。
译文例如，密斯在芝加哥湖滨大道建造的那些优雅塔楼里的公寓，比该市黄金海岸一带老邻居们的公寓更小——两居室不到1000平方英尺。
考点比较级smaller than被破折号插入语隔开 · 省略which/that的定语从句Mies built
4But they were popular because of their airy glass walls, the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings’ details and proportions, the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.
主干主语：they；谓语：were；表语：popular
结构because of后接三个并列名词短语作原因。末尾the architectural equivalent...为前面整个原因内容的同位语，其中of the abstract art后有后置定语so popular at the time。
译文但它们很受欢迎，因为有通透的玻璃墙、窗外的景致，以及建筑细部和比例的优雅——这相当于当时极受欢迎的抽象艺术在建筑上的体现。
考点because of后三个并列名词短语 · 句末同位语对前文原因作概括性说明
5In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life – few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers – but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
主干主语：Ralph Rapson；谓语：may have mispredicted；宾语：how从句；后半：his belief was shared
结构just how引导宾语从句。破折号插入对mispredicted的举例说明，内含though让步从句。but连接另一并列分句，belief后that引导同位语从句。
译文在他的案例研究住宅中，拉尔夫·拉普森或许误判了机械革命将如何影响日常生活——很少有美国家庭拥有直升机，尽管大多数家庭最终都有了干衣机——但他那种认为自给自足既可取又必然的信念，却得到了广泛认同。
考点may have + 过去分词表示对过去的推测 · 破折号插入语中含though让步从句，but后belief的同位语从句