OG12-3 请教D选项

原题如下····
3. Although various eighteenth- and nineteenth Century American poets had professed an interest in Native American poetry and
had pretended to imitate Native American forms in their own works, until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study traditional Native American poetry in native languages.

(A) until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study
(B) until almost 1900 scholars and critics had not begun seriously studying
(C) not until almost 1900 were scholars and critics to begin seriously to study
(D) it was not almost until 1900 when scholars and critics began to seriously study
(E) it was not until almost 1900 that scholars and critics seriously began studying

请教各位，D选项的解释说：“Not almost until”  is a nonsensical sequence of modifiers.请问Not almost until 哪里错了～～～谢谢各位！

首先，这位同学下次可以排一下版么？你原来的帖子没法看啊


almost是应该修饰1900的，是说“到了差不多1900年的时候”的意思。但中文里面，我们经常说“快到1900年的时候“，给人的感觉好像这个almost是修饰”到“的，这就是中英文的差异了。