Question

2001年考研完形填空第一句，有两个宾格。请帮忙解释下

The government is to ban payments to witnesses（第一个） by newspapers seeking to buy up people（第二个） involved in prominent cases such as the trial of Rosemary West.

真题上是这样翻译的：政府即将明令禁止新闻界出重金收买大案要案中证人的做法
但是上面witnesses是证人，buy up people收买的又是人，两个人只翻译出一个。貌似这句话需要翻译成两小句？请帮忙解释一下，如果划分断句 应该从哪里划？

Answer 1

1.第一个是payments to 的宾语（介词后的名词也称为宾语）；by newspapers 是定语，修饰payments(来自新闻界的payments)
2. newspapers seeking to buy up people, seeking to buy up people 是现在分词做定语，定newspapers (企图收买人的新闻界)
3. people involved in ...cases... ,involved in 是过去分词做定语，修饰people (涉及重大案件的人）
总结：难点 1).payments ...by newspapers (被新闻界给出的钱--- payments to witness
给向证人的钱 = 新闻界向证人付钱）
难点 2）newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in ...cases...（寻求机会收买涉
及重大案件人的新闻界）
不知这样解释是否清楚