1. This development--and its strong implication for US politics and economy in years ahead--has enthroned the South as America’s most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation’s head counting.

【詞匯突破】enthrone 使……成為……(其同近義詞為entitle)

densely密集的

Nation’s head counting 全國人口普查(同census)

implication 重要意義和重要性，影響

【主干識別】this development has enthroned the South as America’s most densely populated region.

【譯文賞析】這種發展——以及其對美國政治、經濟在未來幾年的潛在的強有力的影響一一使得南部在全國人口普查中有史以來首次成為美國人口最密集的地區.

2. Now there is in America a curious combination of pride in having risen to a position where it is no longer necessary to depend on manual labor for a living and genuine delight in what one is able to accomplish with one's own hands.

【主干識別】 there is a curious combination of pride and genuine delight

【句子切分】 Now there is in America a curious combination of pride/in having risen to a position/where it is no longer necessary to depend on manual labor for a living/ and genuine delight/ in what one is able to accomplish with one's own hands.

【譯文賞析】現在美國有一個奇怪的現象：人們一方面為地位上升不再需要靠體力勞動謀生而感到自豪，另一方面又對能夠親自動手做一些事而由衷地感到高興。

3. The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data.

【詞匯突破】accused sb. of sth. 指責/譴責某人作了某事

Fabricating 捏造, 偽造, 虛構

The newly described... 這些新近被描述的……

strikingly different顯著的不同

the well studied languages(經過充分研究的各種語言)準確譯法

【主干識別】這是一個帶有結果狀語從句的系表結構，主句系表結構的框架為：

The...languages were so different from.. That... 各種語言是如此的不同，以至于……

【譯文賞析】 這些新近被描述的各種語言與經過充分研究的歐洲和東南亞的語言是如此的顯著的不同，以至于一些學者甚至指責Boas 和Sapir編造了他們的資料。

4. Liberal education must not limit itself to critical thinking and problem solving; it must also foster openness, participation and opportunity.

【詞匯突破】liberal education 素質教育

foster 培養

【譯文賞析】素質教育不應該只局限于批判性思維和問題解決的能力。還必須培養開放的態度，參與的精神和機遇。

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.

【詞匯突破】ongoing 持續的

pragmatic 實用的

reshape 重塑

【譯文賞析】素質教育的宗旨應當是引導我們超越校園，走向一種持續和務實的學習生活，這種學習能讓我們從未知的資源中找到靈感，并增強理解世界和為世界做貢獻的能力，并在這一過程中重塑這個世界和我們自己。

5. After Galileo’s work feeling grew that there were universal laws governing the motion of bodies and that these laws might apply to motion in the heavens as well as on earth.

【詞匯突破】work 著作

feeling 認識

universal 普遍

govern 支配

body 物體

laws 規律

apply to 應用于

as well as 也

【譯文賞析】在伽利略著作之后，這樣的認識加強了，即認為存在著支配物體運動的普遍規律，這些規律不僅適用于地球上物體的運動而且也適用于天體的運動。

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