翻译题 12.Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to today' s young people, it naturally follows that today' s English teachers cannot be doing their jobs.

【正确答案】既然对英语水平下降的关注并不被看成是每一代都有的现象，而被看成是现在年轻人特有的新现象，很自然，接下来就是责备今天的英语教师没有做好工作。

【答案解析】句子主干：Since…(原因状语从句)，it follows that…(主句)；从句中not…but rather…意为“不是…而是…”；主句中that引导宾语从句。