Indo-European

1. Perhaps the most striking sign of mobility is the fact that by the third millennium B.C., most pastoralists in this huge region spoke related languages ancestral to the modern Indo-European languages.
可能在人口流动性方面最具说服力的标志是,公元前3000年,在这片广袤的土地上大部分牧民讲的相关语言,现代印欧语系就从中发展而来。

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2. The scholars referred to that source language as Proto-Indo-European. Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language.
学者们把这种源语言称为原始印欧语。原始印欧语是一种重建的语言。

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3. Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language, meaning, it is what linguists concluded a parent language of Sanskrit, Latin and Greek would have to be like.
原始印欧语是一门经过重构得出的语言,也就是说,这就是语言学家总结出梵语、拉丁语和希腊语的母系语言的样子。

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4. Long enough that there was an Indo-European word for cow gwou.
这段时间很长,以至于在印欧语系里就有个对应于cow的单词gwou。

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5. In fact our word lean evolved from the same Indo-European root.
事实上,我们语言中的lean也是来源同样的印欧语系。

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6. The Indo-European root that likely gave us our word number was nem.
number这个词的印欧语词根可能是nem。

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7. Some sources point to an Indo-European root dek meaning “to take” or “to accept.”
而另一些出处则直指一个印欧语系的词根dek,意思是“取到”或者“接受”。

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8. The Indo-European is the smallest family with only two languages :Russian and Tajik.
印欧语系是最小的家庭,只有两种语言:俄罗斯语和塔吉克斯坦语。

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9. No one knows what made the Germanic language branch off from the Indo-European family.
无人知晓什么原因导致了日耳曼语从印欧语系中脱离。

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10. Several of the chants on Shaman Dancing are based on the ancient Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language.
个别撒满舞蹈时伴奏的圣歌是基于一种远古语言——原始印欧语(PIE)。

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11. The root of pneumonia goes back beyond ancient Greek to an Indo-European word pleu meaning “to flow.”
如果要对pneumonia追根溯源的话,它的词根就得超越古希腊,返回到一个印欧语系单词pleu——其意指“流动”(to flow)。

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12. The American Heritage Dictionary points to a different Indo-European root for the sucking kind of leech.
美国传统词典上指出吸血虫leech来自一个不同的印欧词根。

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13. Around 300 BC there was a language now called the Indo-European language in what is now southeast Russia.
大约在公元前300年,在现今的俄罗斯东南部有一种被称之为印欧语系的语言存在。

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14. The official and common language is Divehi, an Indo-European language related to Sinhalese, the language of Sri Lanka.
马尔代夫的官方语言和最普遍的是迪维西语,一种接近于僧伽罗语(斯里兰卡的语言)的印欧语言。

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15. Sanskrit is an Indo-European classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
梵语是印度的古典印欧语系语言,是印度教、佛教和耆那教的祭礼语言。

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16. A long long time ago the roots of this word were Indo-European and meant "to put," or "to put up" or even "to hang up."
很久以前,那是印欧语系的词根,意味着“去放”或者“举起来”甚至“挂起来”。

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17. The ulna is named from Latin and Latin in turn took the name ultimately from an Indo-European root el meaning “forearm.
其中尺骨-ulna这一名词来自拉丁文,而拉丁语中的这个词根源于印欧语词根“el”——“前臂”。

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18. The deeper root of this Greek meaning is (according to the American Heritage Dictionary) Indo-European where da meant “to pide.”
根据《美国传统词典》的说法,这个古希腊单词可以进一步追溯到印欧语——da的意思是“分开、分配”。

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19. Identifying similar words, linguists have come up with what they call an indo-european parent language, spoken until 3500 to 2000 B.
语言学家鉴定了相似文字,发现他们所称的印欧母语一直使用到公元前3500至2000年。

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20. In Chinese many attributes order is different from the multitudinous Indo-European language the universal attribute order anangement.
汉语多项定语的顺序与众多印欧语言中普遍的定语次序的排列有所不同。

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21. The American Heritage Dictionary gives an Indo-European root klei that also comes down to us in recline and incline; it means “to lean.”
美国传统字典中词根klei表示靠着的意思,现在有recline和incline.

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22. The American Heritage Dictionary gives an Indo-European root klei that also comes down to us in recline and incline; it means “to lean.”
美国传统字典中词根klei表示靠着的意思,现在有recline和incline.

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