2021考研英语长难句复习（十六）

　　

　　While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized.

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　　①We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

　　②While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized.

　　③Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality. A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.

　　④Sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope—all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: "come out from among them, touch no unclean thing , and I will be your God and you shall be my people."

　　⑤One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the Bible that he heard in puritan churches.

　　参考译文

　　①然而，我们不要忘记大多数的新英格兰居民并没有受到过那么好的教育。

　　②很少有手工业者或是农民留下任何的文字资料可供我们分析，更不用说侍从和仆人了。很明显他们的观点并没有完全地在知识领域中被反映出来。

　　③这些人的思维经常充满着传统的迷信色彩。一个名叫 John Dane 的裁缝于 17 世纪 30 年代晚期移民至此，留下了一些文字记录他离开英格兰的原因，而这些文字就充满了这样的征兆。

　　④性困惑、经济受挫、宗教希望这些都在那个关键时刻汇集到了一起：他打开圣经，并且告诉他的父亲他看到的第一行字将决定他的命运，然后他就读出了那句充满魔力的句子：“从他们中间走出来，不要触碰任何不干净的东西，我将是你们的上帝，而你们将成为我的子民。”

　　⑤人们都很好奇当 Dane 在清教徒教会中听到这些严谨的福音宣讲时到底在想些什么。