OG 11th 第6篇

AlienX

At
the end of the nineteenth centum a rising interest in Native American customs
and an increasing desire to understand Native American culture prompted
ethnologists to begin recording the life stories of Native Americans. Ethnologists
had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the stories：they were after linguistic or anthropological data
that would supplement their own field observations, and they believed that the
personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase their
understanding of the cultures that they had been observing from without.

看不懂最後一句: they believed that the
personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase their
understanding of the cultures that they had been observing from without.

without什麼???

    

blogfish

without这里应该是名词，不是介词，from without这里是from outer position的意思

AlienX

arrrhh, what a shame.  I should use a dictionary next time.
謝啦 =)