235. Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Miiller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned soci­eties could bestow.

(A) Miiller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as

(B) Miiller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as

(C) Miiller's career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being

(D) Miiller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being

(E) the career of Miiller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of

答案B。

请问apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar 是什么意思？

查了一下：apprenticeship：学徒身份；serve one's apprenticeship with sb.：做某人学徒.

请问apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar 是什么意思？

成为 Sanskrit 学者的学徒过程.

I hope you get what I am trying to say here though this translation sounds awful to me as well. Sanskrit is an ancient Hindu language.