2021考研英语长难句复习（六十六）

　　

　　You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery.

　　①You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery.

　　②But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents.

　　③The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.

　　参考译文

　　①你可能认为艺术对快乐产生越来越多的怀疑是因为现代社会经历了太多的痛苦。

　　②但是这并不是说以前的时代就没有经历过连年的战争、灾难和滥杀无辜。

　　③事实上，原因可能正好相反：如今的世界上有太多的快乐了。

　　翻译小作业

　　But somewhere from 2000 onward, more students began seeing education as convenient, cheap or even fashionable, as we went from traditional classrooms to online platforms。