2.另类语言的奇异数据:bizarre data from exotic language
3.差别显著:be strikingly different
4.得到充分研究的语言:the well studied languages
5.指责某人做某事:accuse somebody of doing something
6.编造数据:fabricate their data
7.以至于:so much so in fact that
8.传递秘密情报:send secret messages
【翻译练习】
①Other linguists in the earlier part of this century, however, who were less eager to deal with bizarre data from exotic language, were not always so grateful.
②The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data.
结构提示:sothat作结果状语从句。
③Native American languages are indeed different, so much so in fact that Navajo could be used by the U.S. military as a code during World War II to send secret messages.
【参考译文】
①然而,在这一世纪早期,另外一些语言学家对此并无感激之情,因为他们对研究另类语言的奇异数据并不是很感兴趣。
②这些新近被描述的语言和得到充分研究的欧洲和东南亚地区的语言往往差别显著,以至于有些学者甚至指责那些数据资料是Boas和Sapir编造的。
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