题目

请问谁帮我分析一下这个句子的句法~
I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder（-alternating as it does between a dull complacency and,when the
disorder spills out of its proscribed confines,a steady,unthinking application of force,of longer prison sentences
and more sophisticated military hardware-）is inadequate to the task.
主要是括号的部分怎么理解,哪个是主语谓语什么的~

提问时间：2020-08-05

答案

整个句子一起分析：主句部分：I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder is inadequate to the task.精华在于：The response is inadequate.中间有一个巨大的插入语,用来形容repose of the powerf...