Unlike in the Americas, where metallurgy was a very late and limited development, Africans had iron from a relatively early date, developing ingenious furnaces to produce the high heat needed for production and to control the amount of air that reached the carbon and iron ore necessary for making iron.
句子分析
本句的主句是Africans had iron from a relatively early date,句首出现unlike...提示了比较关系,这里是美洲与非洲作比较,在Americas之后有where引导的定语从句作修饰。而主句之后的developing ingenious furnaces则是现在分词作状语。本句还有两个不定式结构,分别是to produce the high heat和to control the amount of air,它们是前面furnaces的补语。句末that引导的定语从句,修饰前面的the amount of air。
词汇总结
metallurgy指的是“冶金术”。
ingenious表示“巧妙的“,比如:an ingenious way of making money 赚钱的妙法,an ingenious gadget 巧妙的小玩意,本句ingenious furnaces指的是“精巧的熔炉”。大家还要记下它的名词ingenuity,表示“心灵手巧;足智多谋”。
句子翻译
美洲的冶金技术发展得非常晚,而且有限。而非洲人则完全不同,他们从相对较早的时期开始就有了铁,并制造出了精巧的熔炉来产生冶金所需要的高温,熔炉还能控制与碳和铁矿石接触的空气用量以满足冶金的需要。