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一个英语句子结构,虽然长,大侠们,

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一个英语句子结构,虽然长,大侠们,
I have every reason in the world to think ill of you.No motive can expose the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there.You dare not,you cannot deny that you have been the principal,if not the only means of dividing them from each other-of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability,the other to its derision for disappointed hopes,and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.( J.Austen:Pride and Prejudice)
means 后面跟了两个of介词结构,为什么我觉得中间那个 if not the only means of dividing them from each other是一个插入结构呢?我觉得应该是you have been the principal -of exposing one to...这样呢?
我觉得你的理解是对的,我同意.弄懂了这句话的意思之后,句子结构就不难分析了啊.这句话的大概意思是:如果说你不是使他们分开的唯一原因,那么你也有着不可推卸的主要责任----你使他们一个因为任性和躁动而受到周围所有人的指责,使另一个因为渺不可及的希望而受到嘲笑,而且你还使他们俩成为最敏感的一类人,饱受无尽的痛苦.这里目的就是列举“你”的罪状,而这些罪状都在后面罗列出来了,所以,if not...只是顺带提一下,并不是要说的重点,那么the principal 的定语就在连字符后面的内容了,句子主干就是 you have been the princial of exposing...and involving..