新GRE考试辅导：阅难难句的攻克（42）

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Only in the case of the February Revolution do we lack a useful description of participants that might characterize it in the light of what social history has taught us about the process of revolutionary mobilization.  
- b2 Y9 w4 b4 R2 s$ ~　　唯独在二月革命(the February Revolution)这一情形中，我们缺乏一种有用的有关参加者的描述，而这一描述则有可能按照社会历史有关革命动员过程所教给我们的内容来勾画出这场革命的性质。
3 k+ _/ ?  H% c" _0 N7 K* Z　　Anthropologists and others are on much firmer ground when they attempt to describe the cultural norms for a small homogeneous tribe or village than when they undertake the formidable task of discovering the norms that exist in a complex modern nation state composed of many disparate groups.
　　当人类学家和其他人试图去描述一个小规模的同一性质(homogeneous)部落或村落的文化标准时，他们处在一种要坚实得多的基础上。相对而言，当他们着手从事这样一个艰巨的任务，即去揭示存在于一个复杂的、由许多彼此间毫无联系的群体所构成的现代单一民族的独立国家(nation-state)时，他们就具备一个同样坚实的基础。