(单词翻译:单击)
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,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。
1.Liberal education must not limit itself to critical thinking and problem solving; it must also foster openness, participation and opportunity.
【词汇突破】:
liberal education 素质教育
foster 培养
【参考译文】:素质教育不应该只局限于批判性思维和问题解决的能力。还必须培养开放的态度,参与的精神和机遇。
2.It should be designed to take us beyond the campus to a life of ongoing, pragmatic learning that finds inspiration in unexpected sources, and increases our capacity to understand and contribute to the world — and reshape it, and ourselves, in the process.
【词汇突破】:
ongoing 持续的
pragmatic 实用的
reshape 重塑
【句子分析】:
主干:
it should be designed to take us beyond the campus to a life.
其他成份:
of ongoing, pragmatic learning 定语
that finds inspiration in unexpected sources, and increases our capacity to understand and contribute to the world — and reshape it, and ourselves, in the process. 定语从句
并列动词:finds and increase
understand and contribute and reshape 并列动词
注意:逗号和破折号的用法其实是很自由的,作者很多时候为了强调一些词和短语,尤其是在并列的时候,多加一个逗号或破折号没有什么值得奇怪的,也没有太多规律可讲,所以不用纠结。
【参考译文】:素质教育的宗旨应当是引导我们超越校园,走向一种持续和务实的学习生活,这种学习能让我们从未知的资源中找到灵感,并增强理解世界和为世界做贡献的能力,并在这一过程中重塑这个世界和我们自己。