Question

麻烦高手帮忙翻译这句话，万分感谢

In a speech given before Bengal Asiatic Society in 1786, he declared that the Sanskrit language bears to both Latin and Greek a stronger resemblance both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar than could possibly have been produced by accident.
我不大明白后面than could possibly have been produced by accident怎么翻译？这里than是比较级还是表示什么？？

Answer 1

在1786年举行的孟加拉亚洲学会上有一篇发言，他宣称梵语在动词词根和语法形式上都与拉丁语和希腊语有很大的相似之处，而这肯定不是一种巧合而已。
后面than...这一句意思是他们的相似之处肯定有某种必然的联系，不只是accident（巧合）。

Answer 2

应该是
“...比(那些动词词根)是由(拉丁或者希腊的)古人们创造的可能性更大”
than 只是单纯的表示对比

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