Question

英语求助

Art is human activity having as its purpose transmission to others of the highest and best feeling to which we have risen. 请说明句子结构，和直译的意思。

Answer 1

首先，having是现在分词结构作定语修饰activity。这个结构为了句子平衡的关系，进行了若干调整，现还原如下：

having// transmission of the highest and best feeling to which we have risen to others// as its purpose

这个结构的主干很简单，就是having transmission as its purpose。

至于transmission// of the highest and best feeling to which we have risen// to others的结构，无非就是transmission of A to B。

而to which we have risen是不定式作定语修饰feeling。其中，rise to意为reach。

翻译：
把我们所达到的最高尚和最优秀的情感传递给他人，以此为目的的人类活动就是艺术。

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Answer 2

已经有高手翻译好了，很不错，赞成