Sustainable development is applied to just about everything from energy to clean water and economic growth, and as a result it has become difficult to question either the basic assumptions behind it or the way the concept is put to use. (08.12 Passage 1)
　　結構分析
　　主干：Sustainable development is applied to just about everything...and...it has become difficult to question...
　　1. and連接兩個并列的分句。
　　2. 前一個分句用了apply...to...句型的被動結構，表示“（人們）把可持續發展（的概念）應用于幾乎所有的事情上”，to的賓語是everything，后面有一個from...to...的介詞短語作everything的定語。
　　3. 后一個分句用“it+系動詞+adj.+to do”句型，不定式作主語，it是形式主語；動詞to question有兩個由either...or...引導的賓語assumptions和way，way后面還有一個省略關系詞的定語從句修飾。
　　譯文：可持續發展幾乎被應用在所有的事務上，從能源、潔凈水到經濟發展，因此很難對其背后的基本假定和該歷年的應用方式加以質疑.