考研英語長難句|Day149

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今日長難句

We are obliged to them because some of these languages havesince vanished, as the peoples who spoke them died out or becameassimilated and lost their native languages.

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詞彙解析

be obliged to sb 感激某人

vanish 消失peoples 民族

assimilate 使同化

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結構分析

主幹:主系表(此處obliged爲形容詞)

修飾:because 引導原因狀從注意 since 此處爲副詞表示“自那以後”

修飾:as 引導伴隨狀語從句

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參考譯文

We are obliged to them because some of these languages havesince vanished, as the peoples who spoke them died out or becameassimilated and lost their native languages.

我們感激他們,因爲,講這些語言的民族,要麼已經滅絕,要麼被同化,既而喪失本族語言。從那以後,某些本土語言業已消失。