?In the early 1950's，historians who studied preindustrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large numbers,to　investigate more of the preindustrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political　and social elite:the kings,generals,judges,nobles,bishops,and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books. (4)

二十世紀(jì)五十年代早期，研究前工業(yè)化時(shí)代歐洲(此處我們可將其界定為約自1300年至1800年這一時(shí)期的歐洲)的史學(xué)家，首次以眾多的人數(shù) (楊鵬的書中：第一次以大量的數(shù)據(jù))，開始調(diào)查前工業(yè)化時(shí)代歐洲人口中的大多數(shù)，而非那些構(gòu)成了政治與社會精英階層的百分之二或三的人口，即國王、將軍、法官、貴族、主教、以及地方上的達(dá)官顯貴，而正是這部分人一直到那時(shí)為止普遍充斥于史學(xué)著作。

難句類型：

復(fù)雜修飾、插入語　

解釋：

句子中有兩個(gè)插入語，一個(gè)是跟在preindustrial Europe之后的which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800,這個(gè)插入語的直接作用是解釋前面的preindustrial Europe的年代，而起到的客觀作用則是把主句中的主語和謂語分割得很遠(yuǎn);

第二個(gè)插入語是在began,for the first time in large numbers, to investingate中間，把一個(gè)好好的began to斬為兩段。

這句話另外一個(gè)難以理解的地方是more of the preindustrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent,表示的是在工業(yè)化以前的歐洲人口中超過了那2%到3%的人，亦即占97%到98%的人民群眾。

意群訓(xùn)練：

In the early 1950's,historians who studied preindustrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began,for the first time in large numbers,to investigate more of the preindustrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite:the kings,generals,judges,nobles,bishops,and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books.