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Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles，or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers misfortunes. 【词汇突破】lawsuit 法律诉讼 compendsate 赔偿 warn of 警告 liable 负责 juries 陪审团 【主干识别】or连接两个并列的句子前一句主干为：a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles.后一句为：the thinking has gone has gone so. 【其他成分】第一句：luckily状语;if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster状语; 第二句：since the early 1980s,状语;when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers misfortunes定语从句修饰the early 1980s. 【微观解析】when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers misfortunes定语从句中holding所接宾语为一独立主格结构相当于一个名词，其完整形式是：More companies are liable for their customers misfoutunes，其中are 变为being ,being再被省去，详细内容可以参看独立主格的讲解。 【难点揭秘】这个句子难点就是so 在句子中的位置发生了改变，到了or 后面，而刚好 or so 是一个熟悉的短语可以修饰1980s是很有可能误解为：the thinking has gone，这样句子的意思就反生了完全的改变。 | 
