因为猩猩的寿命客观存在,所以 live 用一般现代时。
省略:or how (it) or why it dies.
Organ’s decay 器官衰竭
Nor 引导否定并列句,与 unable 并列
生活方式:group living , individual living
智力:intelligence – IQ , intelligence qoutient 智商
CIA – the Central Intelligence Agency of America 美国中央情报局
CID – Criminal investigation Division 重案组,罪犯调查科
All this and many other thing remain (amost as much ) a mystery (as ) they were.
as much as 同 the same as
…remain a mystery the same as they were.
省略句: they were (a mystery ).
状语从句:when...
civilized world 文明世界
savaged world 野生世界
civilized : to get away from wild life
“文明单位”不能用 civilized , 应该用 model 模范 或 pace setting unit规定步调的单位
I’m a pace soldiery。我是排头兵。
He is as much a musician as a writer.= He is both a musician and a writer.
The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive.
那萦绕在喜马拉雅山爬山者脑海中的那种令人难以捉摸的雪人,看起来也不一定比我们研究的大猩猩更加令人费尽心思。(通过侧面比较,引出结论)