Question

难句翻译

Having reached a reasonable conclusion, they insisted that program A, put forward by the elderly, was more practical than program B, which was agreed on by those young．

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Answer 1

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解析：

insist作“坚持说/认为”讲时，从句用陈述语气，表达的往往是一种事实；作“坚决要求”讲时，从句用虚拟语气，即(should＋)动词原形。 　　译文：有了一个合理的结论以后，他们就坚持认为A计划，也就是老年人们所提出的计划，要比年轻人所支持的B计划要切实可行。