托福閱讀長(zhǎng)難句100句:恐龍滅絕的原因

　　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.據(jù)稱，據(jù)傳聞

　　大家自己先讀，不回讀，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)

　　托福閱讀長(zhǎng)難句100句分析：

　　這個(gè)句子的主干就是：

　　Others have blamed extinction on competition from the mammals

　　修飾一：(which allegedly ate all the dinosaur eggs)，從句

　　中文：據(jù)說它們吃掉了所有的恐龍蛋

　　修飾二：(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.) ，從句

　　注意這個(gè)從句里面還有一個(gè)從句：

　　(that mammals suddenly acquired a taste for dinosaur eggs after 120 million years of coexistence)

　　中文：哺乳動(dòng)物和恐龍同時(shí)出現(xiàn)在約190萬年前的晚三疊世，沒理由認(rèn)為哺乳動(dòng)物在和恐龍共同生活了120萬年之后，忽然愛吃恐龍蛋了。

　　托福閱讀長(zhǎng)難句100句參考翻譯：

　　其他科學(xué)家將(恐龍的)滅絕歸咎于哺乳動(dòng)物的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，據(jù)說它們吃掉了所有的恐龍蛋——只是，哺乳動(dòng)物和恐龍同時(shí)出現(xiàn)在約190萬年前的晚三疊世，沒理由認(rèn)為哺乳動(dòng)物在和恐龍共同生活了120萬年之后，忽然愛吃恐龍蛋了。

　　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)。