Question

哪位高手帮我解析一下这句话的每个语法点啊， 跪谢~

Being then year old, I had better things to learn than ideographs copied painstakingly in lines that ran right to left from the tip of a moc but, a real ink pen that had to be held in an awkward way if blotched were to be avoided.

Answer 1

Being 10 years old
现在分词短语作句首状语,作为一个十岁的孩子

I had better things to learn than ideographs
"better things to do than..." 有更重要的事情去做，而不是浪费时间学写中国汉字
中文是表意文字的（ideographs）的一种。

ideographs [(that were) copied painstakingly in lines] [that ran right to left]
前者copied是过去分词作后置定语，that。。。是定语从句，共同修饰ideographs，
从右向左一行一行费劲地书写中文汉字

from the tip of a moc but，
moc but是一种钢笔的名称，联合上句翻译，从moc but钢笔的笔尖从右向左一行一行费劲地书写中文汉字

,a real ink pen that had to be held in an awkward way
a real ink pen = moc but 同位语， 在这里解释什么是moc but

that... 引导定语从句，修饰a real ink pen。
(moc but 是)一种真正的钢笔，你必须用特殊的方式握笔，

if blotches were to be avoided， 条件状语从句
如果你想要避免手上沾到墨迹的话。