Tracing missing persons can take much patient detective work. But a special kind of “private eye” can trace the missing ancestors of whole peoples by studying the clues buried by words. __1__ These philologists, such as the language detectives are called, have traced __2__ the word trail back from peoples in Europe, India, South Africa, the Americas,and the Pacific islands in a tiny nameless, and forgotten tribe that roamed central __3__ Eurasia 5000 to 6000 years ago, before the dawn of writing history. __4__ Since a long time scholars have been puzzled over the striking __5__ difference of words in different languages. In Dutch, vader; in Latin, pater;in __6__ old Irish, athir; in Persian, pidar;in the Sanskrit of distant India, pitr.
) z, G G7 I A9 M+ K3 ]8 o! j: i These words all sounded likely and meant the same thing—“father” __7__ Where did it happen that widely separated peoples used such __8 close related sound symbols? The problem baffled linguists for years. The more so __9__ because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences. Towards the end of the 18 century it dawned on scholars that perhaps all these words stemmed __10__ from some common language.$ z( h* F+ H& o+ J3 D
答案:
f$ ^% t; m9 `: H 1 将by改为in。(be) buried in 意思为 “被…所掩盖,掩蔽于…”
- @% R3 l* Z; Z# h 2 将such去掉。在这里as是连词,引导状语从句.4 L, G1 c" q: ]. V* S
3 将第一个and改为to (这个句子长,小心上当呀)。以便和前文的from构成搭配 “from…to…”,表示 “从……到……”., w5 S' N5 I! Y
4 将writing改为written`。“有文字记载的历史”英语为 “written history”.( I) N I$ F- z- o! m2 y
5 将Since改为 For。因为since做介词, 表示 “自从……起” 之意时,后面一般不跟表示一段时间的名词.
9 ~4 z( v$ T. w 6 将difference改为similarity。从后面的例子我们可以看出,作者在这里讲述的是文字的惊人的相同之处,而不是不同之处.
. f! H, J/ f! |6 L. t 7 将likely改为alike。likely 意思为 “很可能的”,不做 “相同的,相似的”解.
$ c `, C7 f* q6 P$ ], `. @! S$ i 8 将where改为why。这里不是问地点而是问原因,从后面的because也可以看出.
& \7 T# A4 l( f( R" \' H 9 将close改为副词closely。因为形容词close不能修饰过去分词related.
+ f& X3 a9 y* f$ x6 {" G5 c2 B3 M, f 10 将18改为 18th.。The more so because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences.9 T# s' c- ~" c7 Q) g+ J
这句话的the more so because是什么意思呢, 以为人家出版社错了,不过看两本资料都这么写. 有谁看得懂么?还是说真的是出错了.原来the more so because意思为: 更何况. ^_^ |