The closest any of us get to farming is growing a few vegetables in the part of our property not easily seen from the front of the house.我们当中,无论是谁,最接近于农耕的做法,也只不过是在我们的房地产上面从房子正面不容易看得见的一片地上种点蔬菜而已(作主语)。
What evolutionists think is the closest we usually get to the notion of nature these days.进化论者的想法,是我们今天通常对大自然的最为接近的认识(作表语)。
But archaeologists can't reconstruct the social lives of these peoples in much detail. The closest we can come to that is studying the few existing hunter-gatherer societies and reading accounts of how other hunter-gatherers lived before industrial society changed them.但是考古学家们无法详细地再现这些部族的社会生活。我们要这样做,充其量也只能对那些硕果仅存的少数狩猎采集社会进行研究,并阅读有关其他狩猎采集部族在被工业社会改变之前如何生活的记录(作主语)。
That was the nearest he came to discussing any aspect of the case.对于这个案件的任何内容,如果说是讨论的话,他最多也只做到这一步为止(作表语)。
Perhaps the remotest we can be from today's Information Age is going back to the days of the Greeks.我们如果想远离今天的信息时代,充其量也只能回到希腊人的时代(作主语)。