很难理解的句子,看了一个多小时,晕了请大家一起好好看看,这是什么啊,怎么理解不了啊.Astonishment,thatwouldhavebeenaspainfulasitwasstrong,hadnotanimmediatedisbeliefoftheassertionattendedit.你怎么知

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很难理解的句子,看了一个多小时,晕了
请大家一起好好看看,这是什么啊,怎么理解不了啊.
Astonishment,that would have been as painful as it was strong,had not an immediate disbelief of the assertion attended it.
你怎么知道我的句子的出处呢，你都背出来了？
这个句子中主要我不理解的是，
”attended it,“是指伴随什么呢，it指代什么呢
it was strong怎么理解呢

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其实这句话前面还有一个问句,What felt Elinor at that moment?Astonishment,that would have been as painful as it was strong,had not an immediate disbelief of the assertion attended it.
Astonishment是回答第一句提出的问题,也是整个句子的核心,后面的两句都是修饰Astonishment的.
再来看后面两个句子,这两个句子都用了虚拟语气,其中that引导定语从句,had not=if had not.所以完整的句子应该是What felt Elinor at that moment?Astonishment!And if she had not had an immediate disbelief of the assertion attended it,the astonishment would have been as painful as it was strong.
句中attend的意思是“伴随”,全句的大致意思是：Elinor这时有什么感觉?震惊!如果不是她对这一说法立即产生了怀疑,她感到的就不止是震惊,而是强烈的痛苦.