2023考研英语真题精讲 | 2004 英语一翻译 第 7 句

⑤(63) The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the wellstudied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data.

 

The 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.

 

new adj. 新的；新鲜的；n. 新事物。—— newly adv. 新近；最近

 

The newly described languages指第二句中两位学者描述的语言“Two anthropologist-linguists, Franz Boas and Edward Sapir, were pioneers in describing many native languages of North and South America during the first half of the twentieth century.”，即：许多南北美洲的本土语言。

 

表语部分是由so...that...：如此...以至于...来引导的结果状语从句。

 

strike vt.击打；敲打；罢工。—— striking adj. 显著的；明显的；引人注目的；标致的；俊秀的。—— strikingly adv. 显著地；非常地；醒目地。

 

the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia

 

这里的well studied指的是已经得到深入研究的，就是已经有人研究过了的。而两位人类学兼语言学家新研究（描述/记录）的这些南北美洲的本土语言，还没有被研究过。

 

即：这些新近（最近）才被研究（描述）的语言与那些已经得到深入研究的欧洲与东南亚的语言是分词不同的，以至于....。

 

The 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.

 

scholar n. 学者

 

accuse sb ofsth：控告；控诉；指控；指责

 

fabric n. 织物；布料；结构；构造。—— fabricate vt. 编造；捏造。

 

即：以至于，有些学者甚至指控博厄斯和萨丕尔的数据是伪造的。

 

【完整译文】

 

① 这些最近才被研究（描述）的语言与那些已经得到深入研究的欧洲与东南亚的语言是十分不同的，以至于有些学者甚至指控博厄斯和萨丕尔的数据是伪造的。

 

② 这些最近才被研究（描述）的语言与那些已经得到丰富研究的欧洲与东南亚的语言是极其不同的，以至于有些学者甚至指控博厄斯和萨丕尔伪造了数据。

 

③ 这些新近被描述的语言与已经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Boasi和 Sapir编造了材料。