Children Crass Business World Enormously Important Late Nineteenth Century Middle Class

意群训练： Protecting children from the crass business world became enormously important for late-nineteenth-century middle-class Americans ，she suggests; this sacralization was a way of resisting what they perceived as the relentless corruption of human values by the marketplace .

标志： Protect ing children from the crass business world became enormously important /for late-nineteenth-century middle-class Americans, / she suggests ；this sacralization was a way (of resisting what they perceived as the relentless corruption of human values by the marketplace).

译文： 保护儿童不受 充满铜臭气的商业世界的影响 这一点 /对于19世纪末的美国中产阶级来说/变得极其重要 ，她说 ；这种神圣化 是 一个 （抵抗那种 被他们视为是市场无情地毁坏了人的价值的现象的）手段 。

解释： 本句的做主语的动名词结构一上来就很长。分号后面的句子中，a way of 的宾语又是一个动名词结构，其中resist的宾语还是一个由what引导的名词性从句。对于corruption的词义，我们通常只知道“腐败”这个意思，而在此处的意思是impairment of integrity，virtue，or moral principle，即对人在品行上的伤害或损害。