托福阅读备考之长难句分析:恐龙灭绝的原因(在线收听

   Others have blamed extinction on competition from the mammals, which allegedly ate all the dinosaur eggs--except that mammals and dinosaurs appeared at the same time in the Late Triassic, about 190 million years ago, and there is no reason to believe that mammals suddenly acquired a taste for dinosaur eggs after 120 million years of coexistence. (TPO42, 56)

  allegedly/?'led?idli/ adv.据称,据传闻
  大家自己先读,不回读,看一遍是否能理解
  Others have blamed extinction on competition from the mammals, (which al
  legedly ate all the dinosaur eggs)--except (that mammals and dinosaurs appeared at the same time in the Late Triassic, about 190 million years ago, and there is no reason to believe that mammals suddenly acquired a taste for dinosaur eggs after 120million years of coexistence.) (TPO42, 56)
  托福阅读长难句100句分析:
  这个句子的主干就是:
  Others have blamed extinction on competition from the mammals
  修饰一:(which allegedly ate all the dinosaur eggs),从句
  中文:据说它们吃掉了所有的恐龙蛋
  修饰二:(that mammals and dinosaurs appeared at the same time in the Late Triassic, about 190 million years ago,and there is no reason to believe that mammals suddenly acquired a taste for dinosaur eggs after 120 million years of coexistence.) ,从句
  注意这个从句里面还有一个从句:
  (that mammals suddenly acquired a taste for dinosaur eggs after 120 million years of coexistence)
  中文:哺乳动物和恐龙同时出现在约190万年前的晚三叠世,没理由认为哺乳动物在和恐龙共同生活了120万年之后,忽然爱吃恐龙蛋了。
  托福阅读长难句100句参考翻译:
  其他科学家将(恐龙的)灭绝归咎于哺乳动物的竞争,据说它们吃掉了所有的恐龙蛋——只是,哺乳动物和恐龙同时出现在约190万年前的晚三叠世,没理由认为哺乳动物在和恐龙共同生活了120万年之后,忽然爱吃恐龙蛋了。
  这个句子的主要修饰成分就是从句,大家务必想清楚,每一个修饰成分修饰的是什么,才能看清楚这个句子的结构。
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