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Tracing missing persons can take much patient detective work. But a special kind of "private eye" can trace the missing ancestors of whole peoples by studying the clues buried by words. __1

These philologists, such as the language detectives are called, have traced __2

the word trail back from peoples in Europe, India, South Africa, the Americas,and the Pacific islands in a tiny nameless, and forgotten tribe that roamed central __3

Eurasia 5000 to 6000 years ago, before the dawn of writing history. __4

Since a long time scholars have been puzzled over the striking __5

difference of words in different languages. In Dutch, vader; in Latin, pater;in __6

old Irish, athir; in Persian, pidar;in the Sanskrit of distant India, pitr.

These words all sounded likely and meant the same thing—"father" __7

Where did it happen that widely separated peoples used such __8

close related sound symbols? The problem baffled linguists for years. The more so __9

because "father" was but one of a host of such coincidences. Towards the end of the 18 century it dawned on scholars that perhaps all these words stemmed __10

from some common language.

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trace [treis]

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n. 痕迹,踪迹,微量
vt. 追踪,找出根源

 
striking ['straikiŋ]

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adj. 吸引人的,显著的
n. 打击

 
similarity [.simi'læriti]

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n. 相似,类似

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pacific [pə'sifik]

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n. 太平洋
adj. 太平洋的
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detective [di'tektiv]

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adj. 侦探的
n. 侦探

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separated ['sepəreitid]

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adj. 分居;分开的;不在一起生活的 v. 分开;隔开

 
puzzled

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adj. 困惑的;搞糊涂的;茫然的

 
symbols ['simbəls]

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n. 符号;象征;标志;符号表(symbol的复数)

 
related [ri'leitid]

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adj. 相关的,有亲属关系的

 

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