Question

谁来帮我翻译一下这个很长的句子啊，并且分析一下句子语法结构和常用短语？

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 the 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 read.

Answer 1

But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of （it 指代 my worry ) the slighty more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle -class reader,of(补充说明怎么样的problem) disunwillingness to afford those spaces of silence,those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading.

大致意思是：（作者把文学界分为三级）比起初级的庸俗的文学作品的泛滥，他更担心的是中层次读者的水平的下降，比方说他们不静下来思考，不费心关注文学背景，而上层读者却被这样的读书环境所包围

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Answer 2

但我自己的忧虑今天是自然识字的巨大问题比它是衰落的轻微地更加豪华的问题在技巧甚而中产阶级读者的较少，他的不情愿买得起沈默那些空间，沈默那些空间，家务那些豪华和时间和集中，那围拢经典行动的图象读。