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If you egg someone on, you encourage them to do something, especially something daring or foolish.
所以原句可能是BBC文字記者趕新聞時,不經意中寫的run-on sentence。在加上插入語"it says"表示新聞來源後,後面的「形容詞子句」漏了關係代名詞who/that(當主詞時,是不可省略的),所以無法連上先行詞extremists。
The Russia says that Western countries egg the extremists on.
當受詞extremists變成被動句的主詞時,was egged on裡的egged與on就連在一起了。
An attempted crime or unlawful action is an unsuccessful effort to commit the crime or action.
所以an attempted coup =未成功的政變
2014-05-20 00:12:57 補充:
Russia, meanwhile, has characterised the violence as an "attempted coup" by extremists who, it says, are egged on by Western countries.
=同時,俄羅斯政府把這場動亂定位成極端分子們未成功的政變,而且還說那些人是受到西方國家鼓動的。
2014-05-20 10:14:10 補充:
本句因為有了「插入語」it says,所以不能將who are省略,只剩下egged on by Western countries。否則分詞片語所修飾的對象可能不清楚。