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The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th-and-16th-century explorations of North America.

词汇突破

shipload
n. 船货；船舶运载量
territory
n. 领土，领域；范围；地域；版图

结构分析

本句的主干是 The first shiploads of immigrants crossed the Atlantic，主语为 The first shiploads of immigrants，谓语为 crossed，宾语为 the Atlantic。bound for the territory 为形容词短语作后置定语，修饰 The first shiploads of immigrants，which is now the United States 为限制性定语从句，修饰先行词 the territory，more than a hundred years after the 15th-and-16th-century explorations of North America 为时间状语。

参考译文

十五、十六世纪探索了北美洲，又过了一百多年，第一艘满载移民的航船横跨大西洋，驶向这片土地，即当今的美国。