每日長難句 26

Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: “We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”

【2004 Text 4】

單詞：

?transcendentalist n. 超驗主義者

?philosopher n. 哲學(xué)家，哲人

?rigorous book learning 僵化的書本學(xué)習(xí)

?rigorous adj. 僵化的，嚴(yán)格的，嚴(yán)厲的；謹(jǐn)慎的

?put unnatural restraints on... 人為限制……?

?restraint n. 限制，制約，約束?

?recitation n. 背誦，朗讀

分析長難句：

找謂語動詞：

Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: “We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”

斷開長難句：

Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought / schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: / “We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”

①主句：Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought

②賓語從句：schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children

③直接引語：We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing

• 簡化：We are shut up ... and come out ... and do not know a thing

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譯文：

拉爾夫·沃爾多·愛默生和其他一些超驗主義哲學(xué)家認(rèn)為學(xué)校教育和僵化的書本學(xué)習(xí)人為限制了孩子們（的天性）：“我們被關(guān)在中小學(xué)和大學(xué)教室里背了 10 到 15 年的書，最后帶著滿肚子的墨水出來，卻什么都不懂。