GWD29-Q36

Section 301 of the 1988 Omnibus（公共汽车） Trade and Competitiveness Act enables the United States Trade Representative to single out（挑选） a country as an unfair trader, begin trade negotiations with that country, and, if the negotiations do not conclude by the United States government’s being satisfied, to impose sanctions.

1. by the United States government’s being satisfied, to impose
2. by the United States government’s satisfaction, impose
3. with the United States government’s being satisfied, imposing
4. to the United States government’s satisfaction, impose
5. to the United States government’s satisfaction, imposing

 

Answer: D

impose 要和begin平行，这个我看的出来

但是查词典只找到conclude +by, with,that或者 conclude to do sth.决定干某事’

这里的conclude to +n.，那TO就应该是介词了，有这种用法吗？中文意思是什么？请知道的NN指教

还是我自己来解决把。我查了金山词霸和在线英语词典的解释

conclude 的解释有

v.结束, 终止, 决定, 作出结论
vt.推断, 断定, 缔结, 议定

词组有

conclude by/with +n.可表示以。。。结束

conclude to do sth.决定干某事

conclude +that 从句 表推断出。。。。

所以我觉得这题的正确答案应该是B而不是D

我是这么想的，虽然我选了B，但是我认为如果B是with就没问题了，BY不好：

A conclude with/by B 都存在，但是大家仔细看看，B一定是A的某种方式或动作；

这个题里面，考察的不是conclude 短语，而是 to ones satisfaction ，而to ones satisfaction 不是A发出的动作或方式，所以和conclude没关系。

选D，to one's satisfaction是固定搭配，还涉及一个句型 "祈使句＋if"

conclude在这里的意思是，conclude the negotiation缔结条约．