托福阅读备考之长难句分析:美丽的城镇

 　　The largest later named Pueblo¹ Bonito(Pretty Town)by the Spanish, rose in five terraced stories，contained more than 800 rooms，and could have housed a population of 1，000 or more.

　　【译句】最大的一座后来被西班牙人称为Pueblo Bonito(美丽的城镇)，是一个五层梯式楼，有800多间房子，能够容纳1 000人以上。

　　分句1：The largest rose in five terraced stories，contained more than 800 rooms，and could have housed a population of 1，000 or more;

　　分句2：later named Pueblo Bonito(Pretty Town)by the Spanish。

　　分句1嵌套了分句2，分句1的主语是the largest, 这是“the + 形容词”表示一个名词的结构，相当于“the largest one" 的省略的说法。

　　分句2是省略了“which was" 的定语从句，用来修饰分句1的主语the largest, 分句1内部是由三个并列的谓语构成的句子。

1 pueblo   

n.（美国西南部或墨西哥等）印第安人的村庄

参考例句：

• For over 2,000 years,Pueblo peoples occupied a vast region of the south-western United States.在长达2，000多年的时间里，印第安人统治着现在美国西南部的大片土地。
• The cross memorializes the Spanish victims of the 1680 revolt,when the region's Pueblo Indians rose up in violent protest against their mistreatment and burned the cit