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【前文回顾：速看速决】

It is speculated that gardens arise from a basic need in the individuals who made them: the need for creative expression. There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; Yet when one looks at the photographs of the gardens created by the homeless, it strikes one that, for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

据推测，花园产生于花园建造者基本的人类需求，即创造性表达的需求。毫无疑问，花园的出现表明人们有一种难以抑制的欲望，想要去创造、表达、设计和美化，而且自我表达正是人类的一种基本欲望。然而，看着无家可归者绘制出的花园图片时，人们会突然想到，尽管这些花园风格多样，它们都显示了人类除了装饰和创造性表达之外的其他各种基本诉求。

【今日长难句：细读】

One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot.

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【结构解析】

1. 句子主干为主谓宾结构，即：One of these urges/ had to do with/ creating a state of peace, 其中have to do with 为固定搭配，表“与……相关”。

2. in the midst of turbulence 为地点状语；a “still point of the turning world,” 为a state of peace in the midst of turbulence 的同位语；to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot.

【词的处理】

urge / ə:dʒ; NAmE ə:rdʒ / n. 强烈的欲望，诉求，冲动

in the midst of … 在……之中

turbulence / ˈtə:bjələns; NAmE ˈtə:rb- / n. 动乱；动荡；混乱

phrase / freiz / n. 表达，措辞

【参考译文】

One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot.

这些诉求之一与在动荡中创造一种平和的状态相关，借用T. S. Eliot的话来说，就是“旋转世界中的静止点”。

【明日长难句】

A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need.