考验英语一2010第三篇阅读倒数第二段最后一句话If people in the network just two degrees ...

考验英语一2010第三篇阅读倒数第二段最后一句话的语法结构
If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example, the cascade of change won't propagate very far or affect many people.
这句话的翻译我弄懂，但是前半句的语法没搞清楚。如果前半句的主干是If people in the network prove resistant，那么two degrees removed from the initial influential是什么从句，people好像不是这个句子的宾语啊，而且好像应该是two degrees are removed…，但又不可能two degrees是主语。我问了 老师，老师也解释不清楚。希望各位大神把句子结构帮忙理清一下。

just two degrees意译为程度不深的意思，证据的翻译：如果那些离初始影响者不远的网民们提出抵制，那么巨变不会广泛传播，也不会有广泛影响。just two degrees是修饰程度的，去掉这个整句话就好理解了

对 先行词是surprising amount 后面是that引导的定语从句we can say with considerable assurance. 隐含的完整距离就是we can say a surprising amount with considerable assurance