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106．Inuits of the Bering Sea were in isolation from contact with Europeans longer than Aleuts or Inuits of the North Pacific and northern Alaska.

(A)  in isolation from contact with Europeans longer than

(B)  isolated from contact with Europeans longer than

(C)  in isolation from contact with Europeans longer than were

(D)  isolated from contact with Europeans longer than were

(E)  in isolation and without contacts with Europeans longer than

Idiom + Logical predication

The construction in isolation from is awkward；the idiomatic way to express this idea is isolated from．The comparison is ambiguous；it could mean the Bering Sea Inuits were isolated from Europeans 1onger than they were isolated from A1euts and other Inuits or that they were isolated from Europeans 10nger than A1euts and other Inuits were isolated from Europeans．Adding were after than will solve this problem．

A  In isolation from is not the correct idiom；the comparison is ambiguous．

B  The comparison is ambiguous．

C  In isolation from is not the correct idiom．

D  Correct．The idiom isolated fore is correctly used in this sentence；the comparison is clear and unambiguous．

E  In isolation…with is incorrect and confusing；the comparison is ambiguous．

The correct answer is D．

我的疑问是这句话到底是什么意思．谁可以告诉我翻译呢？还请帮忙分析一下句子的成分

意思就是说insuits were isolated from contact with Europeans longer than Aleuts or Insuits of *** were(倒装了) isolated from contact with Europeans （这些都省略了）

如果不加were的话，就不知道到底是

insuits of the bering sea were isolated from contact with Europeans longer than Aleuts or Insuits of *** were isolated from ...

还是

Insuits of the bering sea were isolated from contact with europeans longer than insuits of the bering sea were isolated from contact with Aleuts or Insuits of ***