进一步的检查发现头骨受到剧烈的撞击而碎裂。

Another step forward revealed that the skull had received violent impact and disintegrated.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 进一步 jìn
  1. to go a step further
  2. (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further
=2 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=2 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=2 really and truly
=2 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
3 检查 jiǎnchá
  1. inspection
  2. to examine
  3. to inspect

classifier:

4 发现 xiàn
  1. to notice; to become aware of
  2. to discover; to find; to detect
  3. a discovery
5 头骨 tóu skull
6 受到 shòudào
  1. to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc)
  2. to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc)
7 剧烈 liè violent; acute; severe; fierce
=8 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
9 撞击 zhuàng to strike; to hit; to ram
10 ér
  1. and
  2. as well as
  3. and so
  4. but (not)
  5. yet (not)
  6. (indicates causal relation)
  7. (indicates change of state)
  8. (indicates contrast)
11 碎裂 suìliè
  1. to disintegrate
  2. to shatter into small pieces