多选题 Although the women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who undertook botanical illustration were primarily ______, their contributions as naturalists and catalogers actually helped ______ the field as an academic discipline.

A、 researchers
B、 amateurs
C、 historians
D、 depreciate
E、 chronicle
F、 legitimize

【正确答案】 B、F

【答案解析】[解析] ● Although表示反义重复。
● 两空取反。
● researcher研究者，amateur外行，historian历史学家；depreciate贬低，chronicle记录，legitimate使合理化，答案选BF。