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来源: 于 2013-03-12 19:01:22 [博客] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读：次

An Amateur potter herself, the accountant offered to help the artist with his business accounts, complicated as they were by his unusual system of record keeping.

请问划线部分是否正确？是否算原因状语从句的倒装呢？

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1)  This sentence is CORRECT.

2)  The underlined part is an inversion of “as they were complicated by …”, for emphasizing “complicated”.

3) The “as” here means “since”.