副词就是说不通的。整个句子语法有问题。accept后面的从句里,everything是主语,但没有谓语动词,they believed to be eternally只能作为从句修饰everything,但只能用形容词eternal
如果这个句子写成It could take decades before people finally accept that everything they believed to be eternal is actually not eternal. 就更好理解了,意思是,人们可能要经历几十年才能最终接受一个事实:他们曾经认为是永恒的那些东西,其实都不是永恒的。