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5.Thirdly, it is alleged that the past two decades have revealed a singular want of clarity about the great ends of living, attachment to which gives significance and direction to a life.句中的attachment to…应该是a singular want of的宾语吧，怎么理解呢？
6.The research role will continue to be a key function in the research university, but there will continue to be a shift in emphasis away from single investigator, working on a particular and narrow area, toward multi-disciplinary teams working on problems driven by societal need.
句中的a shift away from…toward…和a shift form… to …意思一样？
7.But although education is for the improvement of the individual, it also serves society by providing a leavening of men of understanding, of perception, and wisdom. 句中的a leavening of什么意思啊？
8.They may be earning their livings by practicing one of the professions, or in pursuing a trade, or by engaging in business enterprise.句中的in pursuing a trade应该是by pursuing a trade吧？
9.In the liberal arts college, on the other hand, the student is encouraged to explore new fields and old fields, to wander down the bypaths of knowledge. There the teaching is concerned with major principles, and its purpose is to change the student, to make him something different from what he was before, just as the purpose of the Y gym is to make a fat man into a thin one, or a strong one out of a weak one.句中的Y gym是什么东东啊？
10.I should put first a sense of proportion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight.句中的put first a sense of proportion以及attach to each its due weight什么意思？


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