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托福阅读长难句：连续三个同位语

例句1：

A desire to throw over reality a lightthat never was might give away abruptly to the desire on the part of what wemight consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely thestructure and texture of a flower.

这个句子里出现的动词有throw, was, might give, mightconsider和record等。

首先，动词不定式不能作谓语，去掉throw和record;

was 后不能紧跟情态动词，所以was和might give应属不同的句子，往前看我们发现that never was 形成S V格式，且紧跟着名词light后，再根据句意判断可知that never was 为a light的后置定语从句;

稍作判断可知to throw over reality a light 为不定式做A desire的后置定语，此时吧它的不定式后置定语及a light的后置定语拿掉可得到简化结构：A desire might give awayabruptly to the desire…。Abruptly显然修饰动词短语give away。至此我们得到a desire(S) might giveaway(V) the desire(O), 经过这样的简化，整句主干已经得到;

至于might consider, 明显和它前面的we组成S V格式，这个从句跟在on the part of 后面做整句宾语the desire的后置定语从句

纵观整句，主语谓语后都跟了较长的定语成分，造成我们判断它们终结位置的困难。而动词的修饰成分一般较短，由它们入手更容易理清句子的各个部分。