英文標準問題精講で勉強8

(38)

and partly because they would not have known what to do with her if she had. → if she had (come)  come が省略！

of late years ここ数年の間 「副詞句」「of + 時」で、「～に（～という時に）」

省略された語句を見抜くこと

(39)

So intimate is the relation between a language and the people who speak it that the two can scarcely be thought of apart. →倒置

→ [the relation between a language and the people who speak it] is [so intimate] (that the two can scarcely be thought of apart).

so long as 「～という前提において、そのくらい（時間が）長く」→「～さえすれば、～する限り」という意味の表現

only so long as there are people who speak it and use it as their native tongue

intimate 密接な、親しい