新GRE考试：阅读难句解读05

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However ， recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan， such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse， were not even typical of New England as a whole， but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut.  
　　然而，进来的学术研究强烈的显示那些看来最为明确的请教徒的早期新英格兰文化的一些方面，比如强烈的宗教导向和团体意识，就整体而言却不是新英格兰的典型特征，而是在很大程度上只局限与马萨诸赛和康涅狄格两个州。
7 M) u( b0 w# r　　难句类型：复杂修饰、插入语
　　解释：宾语从句的主语those aspects后面跟着长长的修饰成分of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan.不但如此，主语和表语之间又被长长的插入语such as分开，而且表语也不是一个，而是were not，but were的结构，使得句子十分难读。
/ B6 M: _! n* T. ]  {　　意群训练：However ， recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan， such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse， were not even typical of New England as a whole， but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut.