The Dawn of Everything is written against the conventional account of human social history as first developed by Hobbes and Rousseau; elaborated by subsequent thinkers; popularized today by the likes of Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steven Pinker; and accepted more or less universally.

《萬(wàn)物的黎明》與霍布斯和盧梭首先提出的人類(lèi)社會(huì)歷史的傳統(tǒng)描述觀點(diǎn)相悖；這一觀點(diǎn)由后來(lái)的思想家詳細(xì)闡述；如今由賈里德·戴蒙德、尤瓦爾·諾亞·哈拉里和史蒂文·平克等人普及；并或多或少被普遍接受。

The Dawn of Everything(主) is written against(謂) the conventional account of human social history(賓) as first developed by Hobbes and Rousseau; elaborated by subsequent thinkers; popularized today by the likes of Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steven Pinker; and accepted more or less universally(定).

【分析】

這句話(huà)句子的主干是The Dawn of Everything is written against the conventional account of human social history，《萬(wàn)物的黎明》與人類(lèi)社會(huì)歷史的傳統(tǒng)描述相駁斥，這里account不是賬戶(hù)的意思，而是描述的意思。account of human social history之后跟隨介詞as+done的多個(gè)并列結(jié)構(gòu)作為后置狀語(yǔ)，什么樣的人類(lèi)社會(huì)歷史描述呢？as first developed by Hobbes and Rousseau，作為被某人發(fā)展出來(lái)的歷史描述，elaborated by subsequent thinkers，被某人詳細(xì)闡述的歷史描述， popularized today by the likes of sb，被像某人一樣的人所普及， and accepted more or less universally.并或多或少被普遍接受。注意這幾個(gè)并列關(guān)系短語(yǔ)中的developed，elaborated，popularized和accepted都是動(dòng)詞的過(guò)去分詞形式，并不是謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞。

總結(jié)下，這句話(huà)雖然很長(zhǎng)，但是其實(shí)只有一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單句構(gòu)成，一個(gè)謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞是is written。整句話(huà)意思是：《萬(wàn)物的黎明》與霍布斯和盧梭首先提出的人類(lèi)社會(huì)歷史的傳統(tǒng)描述觀點(diǎn)相駁斥；這一觀點(diǎn)由后來(lái)的思想家詳細(xì)闡述；如今由賈里德·戴蒙德、尤瓦爾·諾亞·哈拉里和史蒂文·平克等人普及；并或多或少被普遍接受。

【核心詞】

1.conventional adj. 依照慣例的，遵循習(xí)俗的；老一套的，習(xí)慣的

例：She's very conventional in her views.

她的觀點(diǎn)很守舊。

2.popularize v. 宣傳，推廣；使普及，使通俗化

例：To develop and popularize cleaner cars could effectively ease the excessive consumption of fuels.

研發(fā)和普及環(huán)保汽車(chē)可以有效地緩解過(guò)度的燃料消耗。

3.elaborate adj. 復(fù)雜的，精心制作的；v. 詳細(xì)說(shuō)明；精心制作

例：She went on to elaborate her argument.

她進(jìn)而詳盡闡述了她的論點(diǎn)。