2021同等学力英语即将于5月23日考试，考前冲刺备考是大家提分的关键，下面新东方在线同等学力频道为大家分享：“2021同等学力英语翻译练习：文字起源 ”。
主题：文字起源
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题目
How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men , unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words.
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翻译，参考答案
人类最初如何学会文字尚不可知。换句话说，语言的起源是个迷。我们真正所知道的一切就是：与动物不同，人类以某种方式发明一些声音来表达思想和情感、行动和事情以便他们能彼此交流，后来他们就某些符号达成一致，称之为字母，字母可以组合来代表那些声音同时还可以写下来。这些声音，无论是说的还是用字母写的，我们将其称之为文字。
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答案解析：
第二句：
All we really know is that men , unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down.
句子的框架为：All we really know is that men … invented certain sounds … ;
and that later they agreed upon certain signs, …。All we really know为主语从句。and 连接了两个以that引导的表语从句。
第一个表语从句that men , unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other中，unlike animals为插入语成分，so that they could communicate with each other为目的状语从句
。第二个表语从句and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down中，called letters为插入语，以which引导的两个定语从句修饰certain signs。
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