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GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(13/50)

Who would want an unmarked pot when another was available whose provenance was known, and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologists who excavated it ?

資料來源：GRE考古題

解析：

開頭用who 疑問句做開頭，然後後方在用when連接詞連接前後兩子句，表示某時間段所發生的事情，when所引導的子句是時間段，真正主幹事who所帶出的疑問句。

再來就要開始解關係代名詞的部分

another was available whose provenance was known，本來還原不用關係代名詞的話是another was available, and another’s provenance was known. 這裡用whose是關係所有格，就是把先行詞的這個名詞提昇到上層，所以原本這個關係代名詞which變成了whose被提升上去了，至於提升上去之後就沒有主詞或受詞去塞原本關代的位置，所以要再額外找一個名詞（provenance）來補上缺口，因此才會變成關係所有格所引導的子句是完整句的情況。

然後看到後面也有一個小的關代修飾語archaeologists who excavated it，這就不多贅述了，關代要翻譯成『的』，挖掘這個已經瓶罐『的』考古學家。

最後來看整句話的代名詞就解析完成了

Who would want an unmarked pot when another was available whose provenance was known, and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologists who excavated it

第一：that =provenance，往前找畢一個遇到就是他，他教作起源，跟後面的dated很和，都是跟時間有關的

第二：it ＝another，這裡前面要配合文意只能往前追到when後面的主詞了，另一個瓶罐

翻譯：

Who would want an unmarked pot when another was available whose provenance was known, and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologists who excavated it ?

當還有管道找到另一個具有標注起源的罐子而且他起源點還可以藉由挖掘這罐子的專業考古學家以地層學的角度來判定年份的時後，誰想鳥一個沒標記的罐子啊？

邏輯：

Who would want an unmarked pot when another was available whose provenance was known, and that was dated stratigraphically by the professional archaeologists who excavated it ?

有了可以用地質學標注的罐子，誰要沒標註的？

單字：

Unmarked (adj.) 無記號的，unremarked (adj.) 不明顯的

Provenance (n.) 起源

Stratigraphically (adv.) 地層學地

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