托福閱讀長(zhǎng)難句100句：澳大利亞土著文化

　　While accepting that this sequence fits the archaeological profile of those sites,which were occupied continuously over many thousands of years, a number of writers have warned that the underlying assumption of such a sequence—a development from the simple and the geometric to the complex and naturalistic—obscures the cultural continuities in Aboriginal Australia, in which geometric symbolism remains fundamentally important. (TPO23, 62)

　　archaeological /?ɑ:ki?'l?d?ik?l/ adj. 考古學(xué)的

　　profile /'pr??fa?l/ n. 側(cè)面(像);輪廓，外形

　　underlying adj. 潛在的，根本的

　　geometric /?d???'metr?k/ adj. 幾何的

　　obscure /?b'skj??/ vt. 使不分明，遮掩

　　symbolism /'s?mb?l?z(?)m/ n. 象征主義

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　　(While accepting that this sequence fits the archaeological profile of those sites), (which were occupied continuously over many thousands of years), a number of writers have warned (that the underlying assumption of such a sequence—a development from the simple and the geometric to the complex and naturalistic—obscures the cultural continuities in Aboriginal Australia), (in which geometric symbolism remains fundamentally important). (TPO23, 62)

　　托福閱讀長(zhǎng)難句100句分析：

　　修飾一：(While accepting that this sequence fits the archaeological profile of those sites) ，從句

　　中文：雖然接受了這種順序與這些地點(diǎn)的考古圖案相符

　　修飾二：(which were occupied continuously over many thousands of years) ，從句，修飾sites

　　中文：這些地方幾千年來(lái)充滿了這樣的圖案

　　修飾三：(that the underlying assumption of such a sequence—a development from the simple and the geometric to the complex and naturalistic—obscures the cultural continuities in Aboriginal Australia) ，從句，注意里面有一個(gè)破折號(hào)來(lái)解釋說(shuō)明前面的順序：a development from the simple and the geometric to the complex and naturalistic(從簡(jiǎn)單圖案和幾何圖案再到復(fù)雜圖案和自然主義圖案的發(fā)展)

　　中文：但一些作者警告說(shuō)這種順序的潛在假設(shè)——從簡(jiǎn)單圖案和幾何圖案再到復(fù)雜圖案和自然主義圖案的發(fā)展——模糊了澳大利亞土著文化的連續(xù)性，

　　修飾四：(in which geometric symbolism remains fundamentally important) ，從句，修飾前面的Aboriginal Australia

　　中文：而在這里幾何圖案的象征主義依然十分重要。

　　托福閱讀長(zhǎng)難句100句參考翻譯：

　　雖然接受了這種順序與這些地點(diǎn)的考古圖案相符(這些地方幾千年來(lái)充滿了這樣的圖案)，但一些作者警告說(shuō)這種順序的潛在假設(shè)——從簡(jiǎn)單圖案和幾何圖案再到復(fù)雜圖案和自然主義圖案的發(fā)展——模糊了澳大利亞土著文化的連續(xù)性，而在這里幾何圖案的象征主義依然十分重要。

　　這個(gè)句子的主要修飾成分就是從句，大家務(wù)必想清楚，每一個(gè)修飾成分修飾的是什么，才能看清楚這個(gè)句子的結(jié)構(gòu)。