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Recent cases show that people don’t like relying on AI and prefer to trust human experts, even if these experts are wrong.

以逗号为分隔点，前半句为主句：Recent cases (主语) show (谓语) that (引导词，引导宾语从句) people don’t like relying on AI and prefer to trust human experts (宾语，由一整句话表示最近的案例所展现出的结果)

在上述的宾语从句中：and作为连词连接的部分是 ”people don’t like relying on AI”及 “(people) prefer to trust human experts” 两句句子，注意后半部分与前半部分主语一致，故省略

以逗号为分隔点，后半句：even if引导让步状语从句，即”即使(发生了后文中提到的情况)，主句所述内容也成立”
最近的(调查研究)案例【主语】表明【谓语】人们不喜欢依赖于AI并且更乐意相信人类专家【宾语从句，即最近案例表明的结果】，即使这些专家是错误的【让步状语从句】。

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We should be less concerned with students’ ‘cognitive impatience’, however, than what may underlie it: the potential inability of large numbers of students to read with a level of critical analysis sufficient to comprehend the complexity of thought and argument found in more demanding texts.

以冒号为分隔点，前半部分: We (主语) should be (less) concerned (with) (系表) students’ ‘cognitive impatience’ (即我们需要更少关心/不怎么应该关心的对象) , however (表转折，位置灵活), than what may underlie it(students’ ‘cognitive impatience’的比较对象, 即我们需要关心它深层次的原因，it指代’students’ ‘cognitive impatience’’).

以冒号为分隔点，后半部分解释说明’what may underlie it’ : the potential inability (核心名词短语，之后的部分均为修饰、说明它，即围绕其展开) of large numbers of students (inability的所属对象，即大量的学生) to read with a level of critical analysis sufficient to comprehend the complexity of thought and argument found in more demanding texts (怎样的 potential inability; sufficient修饰 ‘a level of critical analysis’; found in more demanding texts 修饰 ‘the complexity of thought and argument’)

冒号尤为关键，要注意冒号后的说明对象是 ’what underlies it’，因此出现的必然是名词形式。

然而，相比学生的“认知急躁”，我们更应关心这一现象(指“认知急躁”)背后的原因：大量学生(可能)没有能力去用批判性分析来阅读【(这种)批判性思维足够去理解在要求更高的文本中出现的复杂思想与争论】。