They were fighting, albeit discreetly, to open the intellectual world to the new science and to liberate intellectual life from ecclesiastical philosophy and envisioned their work as contributing to the growth, not of philosophy, but of research in mathematics and physics.他們戰(zhàn)斗著，盡管是謹(jǐn)慎的，來(lái)為學(xué)術(shù)界打開(kāi)新科學(xué)的大門，而且去把學(xué)術(shù)生活從宗教哲學(xué)中解脫出來(lái)，而且他們把自己的工作看成是對(duì)科學(xué)和物理學(xué)而不是對(duì)哲學(xué)成長(zhǎng)做出了貢獻(xiàn)。
    難句類型：復(fù)雜修飾、插入語(yǔ)、省略、抽象詞
    解釋：本句再一次出現(xiàn)兩個(gè)and連接三個(gè)不屬于同一層面的成分的情況：第一個(gè)and 連接兩個(gè)并列的不定式，第二個(gè)and的級(jí)別較高，連接前后兩個(gè)并列的句子，and之后相當(dāng)于省略了主語(yǔ)they.第二個(gè)插入語(yǔ)起到的干擾作用比較大，把the growth of分割成了the growth, not of philosophy, but of…
    意群訓(xùn)練：They were fighting, albeit discreetly, to open the intellectual world to the new science and to liberate intellectual life from ecclesiastical philosophy and envisioned their work as contributing to the growth, not of philosophy, but of research in mathematics and physics