考研英语是一门需要长时间积累的学科，对于备战2015考研的学子们来说，从现阶段到6月份为夯实基础阶段，在此阶段，同学们应该主攻单词和语法，坚持每天1-2篇的英语阅读以此来培养语感。

　　However, recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not even typical of New England as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

　　解析： 这个句子的背景内容对于考研的同学来讲是必须熟悉地，美国早期的文化特征，出题人特别珍爱这种话题。

　　词汇突破：
　　puritan 清教传统的
　　religious orientation 宗教导向
　　communal impulse 团体意识
　　Connecticut 康尼狄格州
　　be confinded to 局限于...

　　主干识别：recent scholarship has strongly suggested that ...
　　主谓宾结构

　　其他成分：难点是宾语从句中主干的识别：those aspects were not ...but were
　　confined to ...其他的定语什么的就比较好理解了。

　　参考译文：早期的新英格兰文化呈现出了明确的清教传统的特征，这些特征包括强烈的宗教导向和团体意识。但是最近的研究强烈的表明这些方面并不是新英格兰整体的特征，而仅是局限于马赛诸塞州和康涅狄格州之中的。
　　翻译点拨：在翻译的时候还是要注意太长的成分就单独成句了。
　　of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, 早期的新英格兰文化呈现出了明确的清教传统的特征，这些特征包括强烈的宗教导向和团体意识。