Question

Born into a peasant family,he had only two years of schoolin

Answer 1

1. 可以理解为：

into a peasant family 是位置状语修饰 Born,

Born 是过去分词作定语,强调前置,修饰 he.

出生在农民家庭的他,只上过2年学.

2. 也可以理解为：

Born into a peasant family, 过去分词缩略句表被动（主语相同）,作整句的原因状语.

也就是 = because he was born into a peasant family

个人认为,理解为2似乎更简单,也更符合句义.翻译过来就是 (因为)他出生在一个农民家庭,所以他只上过2年学.

但理解2不完全符合逻辑.因为出生在农民家庭不应作为只上过2年学的原因.