这是每日听力的一段话，大家来分析一下，这个句子比较复杂！
To the modern listener, the failure of the Paris critics to acknowledge the memorability of this most tuneful of operas, its brilliant orchestration and striking originality, suggests ignorance, malevolence or both. But the critics were only expressing a widely held view that the subject matter of Carmen was beyond the pale for polite Parisian society.
the failure of the Paris critics to acknowledge the memorability of this most tuneful of operas its brilliant orchestration and striking originality
这段话比较难理解呀，巴黎批评界对这部旋律优美、配器出色、创意惊人的歌剧的大肆贬低。
这里面大肆贬低这段话从哪里可以出来呀，有点晕！高手来解释一下，谢谢作者: hehuhu 时间: 2007-11-30 11:20
acknowledge the memorability 那这段话怎么理解作者: DZ 时间: 2007-11-30 16:27
也许,"the failure to acknowledge"就是没有承认的意思?我也晕了作者: lm6085556 时间: 2007-11-30 16:46
正常的语序应该是
the Paris critics acknowledge the memorability of this most tuneful of operas, its brilliant orchestration and striking originality the failure ，suggests ignorance, malevolence or both.
这样就好理解了
