托福阅读长难句：澳大利亚土著文化

　　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. 考古学的

　　profile /'pr??fa?l/ n. 侧面(像);轮廓，外形

　　underlying adj. 潜在的，根本的

　　geometric /?d???'metr?k/ adj. 几何的

　　obscure /?b'skj??/ vt. 使不分明，遮掩

　　symbolism /'s?mb?l?z(?)m/ n. 象征主义

　　(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)

　　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。

　　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。