考研英语第八十九句

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

　　词汇突破：liberal education 素质教育

　　foster 培养

　　参考译文：素质教育不应该只局限于批判性思维和问题解决的能力。还必须培养开放的态度，参与的精神和机遇。

　　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.

　　词汇突破：ongoing 持续的

　　pragmatic 实用的

　　reshape 重塑

　　句子分析：主干：

　　it should be designed to take us beyond the campus to a life.

　　其他成份：

　　of ongoing, pragmatic learning 定语

　　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. 定语从句

　　并列动词：finds and increase

　　understand and contribute and reshape 并列动词

　　注意：逗号和破折号的用法其实是很自由的，作者很多时候为了强调一些词和短语，尤其是在并列的时候，多加一个逗号或破折号没有什么值得奇怪的，也没有太多规律可讲，所以不用纠结。

　　参考译文：素质教育的宗旨应当是引导我们超越校园，走向一种持续和务实的学习生活，这种学习能让我们从未知的资源中找到灵感，并增强理解世界和为世界做贡献的能力，并在这一过程中重塑这个世界和我们自己。