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.

《萬物的黎明》與霍布斯和盧梭首先提出的人類社會歷史的傳統(tǒng)描述觀點相悖；這一觀點由后來的思想家詳細闡述；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】

這句話句子的主干是The Dawn of Everything is written against the conventional account of human social history，《萬物的黎明》與人類社會歷史的傳統(tǒng)描述相駁斥，這里account不是賬戶的意思，而是描述的意思。account of human social history之后跟隨介詞as+done的多個并列結構作為后置狀語，什么樣的人類社會歷史描述呢？as first developed by Hobbes and Rousseau，作為被某人發(fā)展出來的歷史描述，elaborated by subsequent thinkers，被某人詳細闡述的歷史描述， 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。注意這幾個并列關系短語中的developed，elaborated，popularized和accepted都是動詞的過去分詞形式，并不是謂語動詞。

總結下，這句話雖然很長，但是其實只有一個簡單句構成，一個謂語動詞是is written。整句話意思是：《萬物的黎明》與霍布斯和盧梭首先提出的人類社會歷史的傳統(tǒng)描述觀點相駁斥；這一觀點由后來的思想家詳細闡述；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，遵循習俗的；老一套的，習慣的

例：She's very conventional in her views.

她的觀點很守舊。

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)保汽車可以有效地緩解過度的燃料消耗。

3.elaborate adj. 復雜的，精心制作的；v. 詳細說明；精心制作

例：She went on to elaborate her argument.

她進而詳盡闡述了她的論點。