offer as a tribute是动词词组还是名词短语?

英语翻译
This page is a tribute site to Martin Scorsese.It is NOT Martin Scorsese himself.If you would like to contact the creator/administrator of this page,please contact Carletto di San Giovanni on the top friends list.(PS.Carletto does NOT know Martin personally,so please refrain from asking questions to that effect.) Thank you.

there are tribute bands to the Doors,Abba,the Rolling Stones and many others翻译谢谢

英语翻译
After landing on moon in '69,space
program paid tribute to Trekkies by
naming a ship after S.S.Enterprise.

英语翻译
It is,nevertheless,a high tribute to the skill and care ofmany experimenters that,in spite of this,semiconductors had been recognizedas a distinct class of substances and their main properties appreciated longbefore a comprehensive theory was available to account for them.
These effects are now known to be due to oxide films oractual gaps separating the individual crystals but led to the metals titaniumand zirconium once being listed as semiconductors.
It must be admitted,however,that no infallible criterionwas available till the quantum theory of solids gave an understanding of thereasons for the various properties observed.
4、A review of this early work has beengiven by K.Lark-Horowitz together with a very extensive bibliographycontaining over 350 references.Earlier reviews by B' Guddenalso deal extensively with this phase and discuss in some detail the problemsof identifying semiconductors.
5、The latter,which is generally known asthe carrier mobility,and which we shall define more precisely later generallytends to decrease as the temperature is raised,especially at the highertemperatures,and this accounts for the decrease in conductivity of metals withincreasing temperature.

pay a tribute to sb/sth
请讲具体用法
Italian edition 改成 Italia edition也对吗