新概念英语第四册04-04

how long the gorilla lives

因为猩猩的寿命客观存在，所以 live 用一般现代时。

省略:or how (it) or why it dies.

Organ’s decay 器官衰竭

Nor 引导否定并列句，与 unable 并列

生活方式：group living , individual living

智力：intelligence – IQ , intelligence qoutient 智商

CIA – the Central Intelligence Agency of America 美国中央情报局

CID – Criminal investigation Division 重案组，罪犯调查科

All this and many other thing remain (amost as much ) a mystery (as ) they were.

as much as 同 the same as

…remain a mystery the same as they were.

省略句: they were (a mystery ).

状语从句:when...

civilized world 文明世界

savaged world 野生世界

civilized : to get away from wild life

“文明单位”不能用 civilized , 应该用 model 模范 或 pace setting unit规定步调的单位

I’m a pace soldiery。我是排头兵。

He is as much a musician as a writer.= He is both a musician and a writer.

The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive.

那萦绕在喜马拉雅山爬山者脑海中的那种令人难以捉摸的雪人，看起来也不一定比我们研究的大猩猩更加令人费尽心思。（通过侧面比较，引出结论）

Abominable Snowman 作比较: 省略 than the gorilla

But even he was unable to discover how long the gorilla lives, or how or why it dies, nor was he able to define the exact social pattern of the family groups, or indicate the final extent of their intelligence. All this and many other things remain almost as much a mystery as they were when the French explorer Du Chaillu first described the animal to the civilized world a century ago.

The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive.