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　　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 Massachusettes and Connecticut.
　　
　　解析：今天的句子从结构上面讲并不难.
　　
　　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
　　
　　connectict 康尼狄格州句子中
　　
　　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.
　　
　　昨天句子的翻译：
　　
　　If we want a happier society, we should focus most on the experiences which people value for their intrinsic worth and not because other people have them, above all, on relationships in the family, at work and in the community.
　　
　　如果我想一个更快乐的社会，我们应该关注于这些经验，人们珍惜这些经验是因为这些经验的内在价值，而不是因为其他人拥有这些经验。
　　
　　最重要的是我们应该关注家庭的关系，工作的关系和社区中的关系。
　　
　　（intrinsic worth 内在价值）
　　
　　We live in an age of unprecedented individualism.
　　
　　我们生活在一个个人主义空前的时代。
　　
　　The highest obligation many people feel is to make the most of themselves, to realize their potential.
　　
　　很多人觉得最高的义务就是充分的利用自己，实现他们的潜能。
　　
　　This is a terrifying and lonely objective.
　　
　　这是一个很恐惧和孤独的目标。
　　
　　To become happier, we have to change our inner attitudes as much as our outward circumstances.
　　
　　要想更幸福，我们必须改变内在的态度和外在的环境。
　　
　　We should have a policy for promoting a healthier philosophy of life for youngsters and for helping them to distinguish between superficial pleasures and real happiness.
　　
　　我们应该有这样的政策去提升年轻人使其有更健康的生活哲学，而且帮助他们去区分肤浅的快乐和正真的幸福。
　　
　　It would inspire us in our daily lives to take more pleasure in the happiness of others, and to promote it.
　　
　　In this way we might all become less self-centered and happier.
　　
　　这会激发我们每天的日常生活，给别人带来更多的快乐。
　　
　　这样我们就能变得不那么自我，变得更快乐。

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