Special Versus Side Subjectivity Feminist Literary Political Court

意群训练： For the woma n who is a practitione r of feminist literary criticism , the subjectivity versus objectivity ，or critic-as-artist-or-scientist ，debate has special significance ; for her ，the questio n is not only academic , but political as well ，and her definitio n will court special risk s whichever side of the issu e it favors .

标志： /For the woman (who is a practitioner of feminist literary criticism），/ the subjectivity versus objectivity ，（or critic-as-artist or critic-as -scientist ), debate has special significance ; for her，the question is not only academic, but political as well ，and her definition will court special risks /whichever side of the issue it favors/.

译文： /对于一个（从事于女权主义文学评论的）妇女来说/，主观性还是 客观性 （或者说评论家应该作艺术家、还是 作科学家 ）的争论 有着 特殊的重要性 ；对她来说，此问题不仅仅 是学术上的，而且还 是政治上的，并且她所给出的定义，/不管有利于问题的哪一方/，都会招致 特殊的风险 。　　

解释： 首先解释一下几个词汇：

versus：在这里不是前面讲过的against的意思，它和后面的or都是“是……还是……”的意思，其英文释义为：in contrast to or as the alternative of <free trade versus protection>。

court：招致（风险、失败）；英文释义：to act as to invite or provoke〈courts disaster〉

分号前面的句子的主语被插入语“or critic-as-artist-or-scientist”分开，正常情况下应该是the subjectivity versus objectivity debate 。这种名词修饰名词的情况在GRE和GMAT考试中是常见的，如前面讲过的句子中出现的“mind-body problem”。

最后的条件状语从句whichever side of the issue it favors看上去不难，但却不好理解。首先是whichever被提前的表示方法，相当于no matter it favors which side of the issue的倒装，no matter被省略，which提前并改成了whichever；后面的side of the issue也被提前到主谓it favors。issue在此之前面的主要问题，即主观性还是 客观性 的问题，而it前面的名词太多，一下子不好辨别。其实就是指本句的主语her definition。