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【昨日长难句】With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver,” creating our inner character and outer circumstances, the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.James Allen的《做一个思考的人》是对自助自立这一中心思想的深入探索。其主题是“思想是编织大师”，它创造了我们内在的性格和外部环境。

【今日长难句】Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share—that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts—and reveal its erroneous nature.

【结构解析】

1.本句为复合句，主句为“主系表”结构，即：Allen’s contribution/ was/ to take an assumption and reavel its erroneous nature.

2.“we all share” 为省略了关系词的定语从句，修饰an assumption; “that because we are not robots, we therefore control our thoughts”为同位语从句，解释“an assumption”的内容。

关于同位语的理解和翻译，戳：强调句式+同位语从句

【词的处理】

contribution / ˌkɔntriˈbju:ʃn/ n. 贡献

assumption / əˈsʌmpʃn / n. 假设

robot / ˈrəubɔt/ n. 机器人

reveal / riˈvi:l / vt. 揭示；显示；透露

erroneous / iˈrəuniəs/ adj.错误的

nature / ˈneitʃə(r) / n. 基本特征；本质

【参考译文】

Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share—that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts—and reveal its erroneous nature.

译文1：我们每个人都认为：自己不是机器人，因此能够控制自己的思想；爱伦的贡献在于他研究了这一假说，并揭示其错误的本质。

译文2：爱伦的贡献是他抓住了我们所有人都认同的一个假设——因为我们不是机器人，所以我们能控制自己的思想——并揭示了它错误的本质。

【明日预告】Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter, we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way and act another.