Question

英语长难句翻译

But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of he middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading.

Answer 1

但是，相比形势严峻的扫盲问题，今天我个人更加担心的是一个更高端的问题——阅读技巧，甚至是中等水平读者阅读技巧的衰退；读者腾出片刻的安静，占用宝贵的家庭生活、时间和精力来阅读的意愿的减退。而这些，正是经典式阅读的支柱。

“he middle-class”应为“the middle-class ”