白勇语法第５章语法第７练习题，高手帮助

有谁能翻译下面的语句

Spanning more than fifty years,Friedrich Miiller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honoor that European governments and learned societies could bestow

不主张翻译句子

只要单词认得，句子成分搞得清楚，意思还能不明白？