大全068 as late as

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68. After the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortalityrate, life expectancy improved for children, but as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six.
(A)After the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improvedfor children, but
(B)Even though children’s life expectancy, which improved over the Colonial period’s50 percent mortality rate,
(C)Although life expectancy for children improved after the Colonial period,during which the mortality rate was 50 percent,
(D)While there was an improvement in life expectancy for children after the 50percent mortality rate of the Colonial period, still
(E)Despite children’s life expectancy improvement from the Colonial period’s 50percent mortality rate,


正解是C
大全的解释：

    A) After rate错
     B) Even though应加句子.
     C) best
     D) there was an improvement不好，After rate错
     E) Despite+复杂结构，表达意思不清。
我的问题是as late as 是个什么结构，我怎么都觉得这个句子很别扭，像没有主句一样。希望各位NN还没睡.....

ttc12345

自己顶起！

ttc12345

这样啊...那请问这个as late as在这里做一个什么成分啊？ 我觉得although后面的句子不应该直接跟主语吗？

shishuyaun

我个人觉得AS LATE AS 19TH就是一个简单的as adj as 的结构 解释为 直到19世界（有让步的意思）