关于OG13的74题，although 和but rather可以连用吗？

linhan50

Desplte its covering the entrre planet. Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is fragmented into mobile semirigid plates.
(A) Despite its covering the entire planet, Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is
(B) Despite the fact that it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but is
(C) Despite covering the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but rather
(D) Although it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor stationary, but rather
(E) Although covering the entire planet, Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, but                答案是D

为什么although可以和but rather 放在一个句子里啊？

tomatoshirt

The problem of the sentence is parallelism of neither X nor Y...

Although it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor stationary. (you can finish the sentence there) ....

linhan50

The problem of the sentence is parallelism of neither X nor Y...

Although it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor stationary. (you can finish the sentence there) ....

-- by 会员 tomatoshirt (2012/8/25 11:24:22)

我想问下，那A和E呢？就不是neither or结构了。       not 后面是跟nor吗？

qiuhua01234567

Desplte its covering the entrre planet. Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is fragmented into mobile semirigid plates.
(A) Despite its covering the entire planet, Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is
(B) Despite the fact that it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but is
(C) Despite covering the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but rather
(D) Although it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor stationary, but rather
(E) Although covering the entire planet, Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, but                答案是D

为什么although可以和but rather 放在一个句子里啊？

-- by 会员 linhan50 (2012/8/25 11:04:57)

我觉得因为逻辑层次不是同级。这么看吧
although......(but)[Earth's.......,but rather......]，but rather后面的东西其实是再转折。open to discuss