实质上,在不探究其他限制因素的情况下,得出这个结论几乎是必然的.更何况他们对竞争的成见之深,根本没法再探究其他因素.
这句话 前面主句的主语是this conclusion,谓语是was ,表语是 inevitable ,后面if 引出一个并列句.并列句‘no search was made for other restraints,and so complete was the preoccupation with competition that none was made’中的两个小句都用了倒装形式.第一个小句很简单,第二个句子 so complete was the preoccupation with competitionthat none was made’的可以理解为 the preoccupation with competitionthat was so complete that none (of the search) was made’ .