艾瑞岡跪在被踐踏過的蘆葦草上，用他那熟練的眼神掃視著。足印告訴他那群鹿半個小時前才在這草地上，牠們很快就會停下來休息。他的目標——一隻跛了左前腳的小母鹿，仍跟在鹿群中。他很驚訝她竟然走了那麼久都沒有被一隻狼或熊抓到。
第四句
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他 → He
很 → very
驚訝 → surprised, astonished
她 → she
竟然 → unexpectedly, to one's surprise, actually
走 → to walk
了 → aspect particle showing completion
那麼久 → that long (THAT long)
都 → all, everyone, everything. Here the 都 plays the same role as the contruction 連…都/也, however, the 連 cannot be used here in the passive voice.
沒有 → have not, quite literally.
被一隻狼或熊抓到 → been snatched by a wolf or bear. Using 被 makes a sentence passive. The construction is 「被 + Noun(if there is one) + Verb (+ some sort of aspectual marker)」 and it means "(By noun [if there is one]) verb[in passive form]."※
So putting this all together, we get a sentence that literally says, "He very surprised she unexpectedly walked that long even have not by wolf or bear been snatched." In our modern tongue we would say...
"He was surprised that she had actually come this far without having been snatched up by a wolf or bear."
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※ I will go over 被 in more depth in a later post.
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