as diverse as成分剖析

Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year——from organizations as diverse as Time Warner, the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California, Berkeley——have left managers hurriedly peering into their intricate IT systems and business processes in search of potential vulnerabilities.

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as+diverse as分句整体看成一个形容词短语作organizations的后置修饰语, as diverse as....这个结构中, 第一个as是副词修饰形容词diverse, 后面as-分句修饰第一个AS。所以AS DIVERSE AS...整体是一个形容词短语，不是副词短语。