托福阅读长难句分析（54）

　　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 /ˌɑ:kiə'lɔdʒikəl/ adj. 考古学的

　　profile /'prəʊfaɪl/ n. 侧面(像);轮廓，外形

　　underlying adj. 潜在的，根本的

　　geometric /ˌdʒɪə'metrɪk/ adj. 几何的

　　obscure /əb'skjʊə/ vt. 使不分明，遮掩

　　symbolism /'sɪmbəlɪz(ə)m/ n. 象征主义

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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)

　　托福阅读长难句100句分析：

　　修饰一：(While accepting that this sequence fits the archaeological profile of those sites) ，从句

　　中文：虽然接受了这种顺序与这些地点的考古图案相符

　　修饰二：(which were occupied continuously over many thousands of years) ，从句，修饰sites

　　中文：这些地方几千年来充满了这样的图案

　　修饰三：(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) ，从句，注意里面有一个破折号来解释说明前面的顺序：a development from the simple and the geometric to the complex and naturalistic(从简单图案和几何图案再到复杂图案和自然主义图案的发展)

　　中文：但一些作者警告说这种顺序的潜在假设——从简单图案和几何图案再到复杂图案和自然主义图案的发展——模糊了澳大利亚土著文化的连续性，

　　修饰四：(in which geometric symbolism remains fundamentally important) ，从句，修饰前面的Aboriginal Australia

　　中文：而在这里几何图案的象征主义依然十分重要。

　　托福阅读长难句100句参考翻译：

　　虽然接受了这种顺序与这些地点的考古图案相符(这些地方几千年来充满了这样的图案)，但一些作者警告说这种顺序的潜在假设——从简单图案和几何图案再到复杂图案和自然主义图案的发展——模糊了澳大利亚土著文化的连续性，而在这里几何图案的象征主义依然十分重要。

　　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。