Question

求中文翻译 要坐雅思阅读 看不懂的句子 请哪位英文高手翻译一下 谢谢

It is highly appropriate that Dr Samuel John, the very model of an eighteenth-century literary man, as famous in his own time as in ours, should have published his Dictionary.

there had been 是怎样的结构

Answer 1

可以恰到好处地说，Dr Samuel John 本该出版他自己的字典，他是18世纪文学家的典范，他在当今如同在他那个年代一样著名。

there had been是过去完成时结构，如：He said that there had been lots of help given to him from people of different walks of life ever since his first appeal.(从他第一次呼吁起，来自各阶层的人们就给了他大量帮助。)

Answer 2

作为十八世纪的代表性文学家，且在那个时代和现代同时享有盛誉的Dr.Samuel John编辑一本字典是非常合乎情理（恰当）的。