Question

求新概念英语第四册第32课的几个句子的解释！谢谢！！请看问题补充，谢谢~~

第一句话的分号后面：but the scientific dust has long since settled.这个since是一个省略吗？为什么后面的中文解释是“自从伽利略死了以后”。如果不是省略似乎讲不通啊，但是有这样的省略吗？是不是太简略了，有些牵强啊~~
还有一个句子，第八行：and he had seen there evidence enough to overthrow Aristotle and Ptolemy together.其中的evidence enough是不是应该是evident enough呢？或者是enough evidence，难道有这种倒装？或者是古老英语的一种表达形式？求解释 ~~万分感谢~~
谢谢这位回答者，追问一下：
1.第一句的语言现象是标准的语法吗，今后写作也可以这么写吗？
2.为什么第二句=enough evidence which is enough...呢？为什么有两个enough啊？有点小重复？？谢谢~~

Answer 1

首先解决第一个 but the scientific dust has long since settled.=but the scientific dust has long settled since XXXXX passed away .第二句=and he had seen there enough evidence which is enough to overthrow Aristotle and Ptolemy together ........do you get it?

Answer 2

这是since引导的现在完成时。英语里的习惯用法。

Answer 3

long since 是一个固定搭配，等同于long before now

Answer 4

推荐答案第一句解释有误，long since 固定用法。第二句没问题。