今天的句子：

　　Interest in historical methods has arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history as an intellectual discipline and more from internal quarrels among historians themselves.

　　昨天句子的解析：

　　Where Republican orthodoxy suggests saving poor people from welfare dependency by mercifully reducing the amount of money they receive, Mr Rubio，a republican senator , aims to cut welfare spending by reducing the demand for it, keeping funding at the same level but handing anti-poverty programmes over to the states to figure out what works.

　　词汇突破：1.Republican orthodoxy 共和党的传统观点

　　2.Mercifully： 慈悲的;仁慈的;对…有好处的;适当的

　　3. where的用法： (用于引导从句进行对比)然而

　　（You use where to introduce a clause that contrasts with the other

　　parts of the sentence.）

　　例句： Where some people learned to play the accordion for

　　dances in their community, others took music lessons.

　　一些人学习弹手风琴，为他们社区里的舞蹈表演进行伴奏，

　　而其他人则上音乐课。

　　4. Suggest：可以直接加名词表示建议：Ruth suggested a holiday.

　　鲁思建议去度假。

　　5.Hand A over to B：移交

　　主干识别： Mr Rubio aims to cut welfare spending.

　　鲁比奥计划减少福利开支

　　其他成分：1. Where Republican orthodoxy suggests saving poor people from

　　welfare dependency by mercifully reducing the amount of money

　　they receive,

　　Where引导一个对比含义的状语从句:

　　共和党的一贯的看法是，适当地减少穷人收到的福利，把他们从      对福利的依赖中解救出来。

　　2. a republican senator 同位语

　　3. by reducing the demand for it, 状语

　　通过降低需求

　　4. keeping funding at the same level

　　补助水平维持不变

　　5. handing anti-poverty programmes over to the states to figure out                 what works.

　　将扶贫项目下放到各州以找出其中哪些方案是有效的。

　　参考译文： 共和党的一贯的看法是，减少穷人收到的福利金额，使他们不再依赖福利，而鲁比奥却计划通过降低需求来减少福利开支，补助水平维持不变，将扶贫项目下放到各州以找出其中哪些方案是有效的。

　　这样的解析和翻译也是没谁了！