杨鹏长难句一句Intheearly1950’s,historianswhostudiedpre-industrialEurope(whichwemaydefinehereasEuropeintheperiodfromroughly1300to1800)began,forthefirsttimeinlargenumbers,toinvestigatemoreofthepre-industrialE

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杨鹏长难句一句
In the early 1950’s,historians who studied pre-industrial 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 pre-industrial 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.
more of the pre-industrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent
它说的是不只是百分之二三的人,还是除了那百分之二三的人?
杨鹏上面说的是除了这百分之二三人,这是怎么翻译出来的呢?

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不止这百分之二三的人,说50年代后historians开始扩大其研究群体的范围,而不只是那2%-3%的elite