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标题: [求助]og 70,关于likely的用法 [打印本页]

作者: z520m 时间: 2005-8-10 23:17
标题: [求助]og 70,关于likely的用法

70. A President entering the final two years of a second term is likely to be at a severe disadvantage and often unable to carry out a legislative program.

(A) likely to be at a severe disadvantage and is often unable to

(B) likely severely disadvantaged and often unable to

(D) liable that he or she is at a severe disadvantage and cannot often（A）

(E) at a severe disadvantage, often likely to be unable that he or she can

我选了b,答案是a没什么问题，就是不明白为什么likely disadvantaged is less precise than likely to be at a disadvantage.看起来后者似乎还比较wordy.

请nn们指教，ets什么思路？

作者: andrew_li 时间: 2005-8-11 03:58
likely is an adjective and can not be used to modify disadvantaged.

作者: sweetstar 时间: 2005-8-11 10:42

be at disadvantage 和 be disadvantaged 的区别。此处be at disadvantage 来得更加确切。

作者: z520m 时间: 2005-8-12 14:21
我个人的体会是，at a severe disadvantage 和 severely disadvantaged意思是不同的，还有就是 disadvantaged前面加2个词 severely 和likely有歧义，因为likely可以修饰severely,也可能修饰disadvantaged,但是a也不简洁，a完全可以在unable to 前省is，加了is 总感觉不符合ets的习惯！那位可以告诉我为什么要加is?是多余还是一定要加？不加是不是更好？

作者: ESeraph 时间: 2005-8-12 14:28
我认为楼上对于likely的解释很有道理。个人认为is加上比较好，也就是and连接两个单独的成分

作者: ESeraph 时间: 2005-8-12 14:51
而且怎么能够确定often unable to前面跟的不是likely to be？

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