1·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。
2·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。
3·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。
4·We speak a decimal language because an ancestral tongue, proto-Indo-European, was decimally based.
我们说的是十进制的语言,这是因为我们的始祖语言——原始印欧语——是基于十进制的。
5·The root of his name is thought to come from an Indo-European root ei meaning “to go,” again, as one does through a doorway.
他的名字的来源被认为是来自印欧语系的一个词根,意为“向前走”,再一次的,需要经过一道门。
6·He also examines the comparative structure of Indo-European languages and East Asian languages, finding important differences which to some extent parallel differences in thought processes.
他还对印欧语系及东亚国家的语言结构进行了比较,发现语言上的重大差异在某种程度上与思想的差异是平行存在的。
7·These two genetic Cousins of English, in the Indo-European language family, are child's play compared with some.
这两门语言都属于印欧语系,是英语的近亲,和其他一些语言比起来,简直是小儿科。
8·Historical accounts hold that other human societies, like the Scythians, nomadic Indo-European warriors, used skull-cups to sip the blood of enemies.
历史记录显示一些人类部族,例如西叙亚人和印欧游牧的战士用头骨杯子喝敌人的血液。
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。
10·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。