请教GWD 31-15
15: Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require
A: rather than burning calories to generate it
B: rather than the generation of body heat by burning calories
C: and not from generating it by burning calories
D: instead of by burning calories for generating it
E: instead of body heat generated by burning calories
Although ETS perfer "rather than", according to the parellerl structure, I think C is better. Hope NN 指点。这题目没有答案,所以在A与C之间徘徊。
c如果改成and not from burning (分词作定语)calories,才有对的可能。
我认为相比之下,只有选A了。
A的it指代怎么讲呢?
it 当然指代body heat 啦
A 相对好些呢,不管怎么说还是读得通,而且又用了rather than,C 好像应该用but来表示转折吧(本来很肯定,但读了几次后好像and也读得通,不过我们不能被汉字的假相迷惑啊,英语毕竟是不同的)
最后,我觉得这题出的很没有ETS精神啊,没有一个是真正完美的嘛
初看起来,本题的几个选项确实感觉都有点别扭。下面,我谈谈我的一点想法,也希望大家一起讨论,多批评指正,共同将这个题讨论清楚。
(1)关于平行
通过此题,让我对平行有了进一步的思考。
说实话,以前觉得平行的两个对象是很清晰的,从来就没有仔细考虑过那里应该是平行的起点。以本题为例,平行的两个对象是从by开始呢(如果从by开始,就只有D选项形式上是平行的),还是从by后的某个词开始呢?
我的想法是,平行的对象要从比较对象的不同部分开始。
比如本题,如果比较的对象是draw和另外一个不同的动词,则应该从by开始。否则,就可以从by后面要比较的对象的不同支持开始。
(2)关于几个选项
(A)的问题应该是不平行,与draw平行的话,应该有BY引导;另一个问题是,it的指代。
(B)比较的对象,重心都有问题。
(C)and not有问题,it也不好。
(D)instead of 通常链接两个名词,it指代问题。
(E)比较了两种获取 body heat 的方式,instead of 链接两个名词。相比而言,较好的表达了原文意思。
即: by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun instead of body heat generated by burning calories。红色字体平行。
当然,觉得最好的答案应该是诸如:rather than by burning calories 之类的。可是原文选项没有啊。呵呵!
欢迎讨论!
不是这样吧......draw sth from 是固定搭配啊,drawing是吸收的意思吧这里,你总不能说
Reptiles, .... instead of (by drawing their) body heat generated by burning calories, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require (蜥蜴通过吸收由燃烧卡路里产生体热来在xx环境生存)吧,有点变原意,而且好像很别扭
drawing 改成using 或是 drawing their body heat from burning calories 会好些
I prefer A.
C. from the Sun and not from + n. 这个名词和Sun平行,然而该选项用了动宾段语generating it。
我开始的时候也选了A,但是仔细看一下还是觉得E是最好的
要看句意,题目的意思是说爬行动物是直接从太阳那儿获得热量,而不是通过燃烧卡路里。
instead of body heat generated by burning calories,E选项的body heat加得很好,如果去掉,象前面有人说的变成rather than by burning calories的话,就很容易让人误以为和前面的by drawing 平行的,显然是不对的。
而且ETS虽然是perfer rather than 的说法的,但是依据是因为rather than是连词,而instead of是介词,rather than 的应用范围很广,在本题中instead of 的用法是没有问题的,因为后面跟的是名词。
选E是不是就变成了:by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun instead of (by drawing )body heat generated by burning calories
drawing body heat (generated by burning calories)好象意思和结构都不太完整
选E太牵强,我还是觉得A好点。
A相比之下还是好的,
首先 rather than 的用法是正确的,
it之前的动词是generate,而实用单数名词的只有sun 和 body heat,而sun是不可能被reptile 来generate的 ,所以it的指代没有问题。
A,rather than前后相同的部分省略,这里省略的是by
就像prefer to do rather than (to) do 一样的.
见og10 10E的解释
E 对 很多人偏爱A ,觉得A意思变了,表面平行,其实意思不平行
Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive
by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than
from
burning calories , can survive
才对
1.to jinni
如果去掉,象前面有人说的变成rather than by burning calories的话,就很容易让人误以为和前面的by drawing 平行的,显然是不对的。
就是要和之前的by drawing 平行啊,我看不出有啥不对的
2.to xiangqinzh
by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than
from
burning calories , can survive才对
请看清句意,通过A获得体温和通过B获得体温平行
所以from要补的话也要换成by
个人支持A
A is the answer I think E is not that good: 比较对象不平行,之前是by的介词词组,instead of后是一个由分词进行修饰的body heart
GMAT考平行结构,第一重要的是逻辑平行,其次才是结构平行。这道题的逻辑结构应该是 “从太阳那里获得体温”与“从燃烧卡路里那里获得体温”这两个意思平行。
根据这个原则,A,D 不对,错误是将“获得体温by drawing body heat” 与“燃烧卡路里 by burning .....” 来平行。
B,E的错误是 连词前后平行对象不一致。B将 generation of body heat 与 drawing their body heat 平行。名词与动词分词平行,而且逻辑上说不通。
E的错误类似。
C 正确。逻辑意识是 体温的获得是 “from 太阳” 而不是 “from 燃烧卡路里来获得 ”。 用了from ...and not from....避免了歧义,很明确的指出了爬行动物从太阳获得体温,而不是通过别的途径。虽然C 的语法结构不是严格一致的,但是它的逻辑结构是唯一平行的。
15: Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require
A: rather than burning calories to generate it
B: rather than the generation of body heat by burning calories
C: and not from generating it by burning calories
D: instead of by burning calories for generating it
E: instead of body heat generated by burning calories
支持A,E选项看似有理,再仔细想想,跳出语法,从整体来看,把简单问题复杂化.
先看A
A. Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require
A,引起大家不舒服的,无非2点:
1,后面少个by: 有时候平行对称,要看从哪里开始对称,这句A就是从by以后开始对称,所以drawing 对 burning 完全没错,公用一个by.以前都是强调补出介词什么的,那是为了句子更加清晰,但是语法上来说,A这种绝对没错.
2,it不舒服: 其实细细品味一下,这个it还真不能少. 原句里,体热啊,卡路里啊,弄得麻烦,我来举个类似的句子,大家看看---->
小R,依靠从父亲那里索要购车款,而不是努力工作去挣这些购车款(原文的it),买下了一辆豪华轿车.
大家看其实2组相同颜色的部分,其实是平行的.
再来看E
E. Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun instead of body heat generated by burning calories, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require
e前面有位战友分析了一下,看似比较有理,我也一开始被他说服了,说是从body head开始对称,也就是说:共享 by drawing...,粗一看,确实是一种解决方式,而且完成了一个比较完美地形式对称,但是,如果是 相对于body heat对称,句意变成了什么了?
...by drawing their
body heat1 directly from the Sun instead of body heat2 generated by burning calories
大家看一下主干: by drawing sth1 instead of sth2 ,好像再说有两种body heat. drawing那种来自太阳的body heat1,而不要那种燃烧卡路里而产生的body heat2...
from the sun 和 generated by burning都是作为修饰成分分别修饰body heat1 和body heat2 (如果有人要是说 draw 和from搭配,那么draw from就和body heat2就不平行: draw sth1 from somewhere / draw sth2)
其实body heat只有一种:就是生命体的体热. 只存在达成body heat的方式不同,而不存在不同种类的body Heat.
好比我们说 "胜利",只有一种胜利,那就是赢了,打败别人了...胜利没有其它的什么种类,胜利就是胜利,只有达成方式不同,不存在胜利本身有啥不同.
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E. Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun
instead of body heat generated by burning calories, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require
e中,还有 2处蓝色平行的嫌疑.
GMAT考平行结构,第一重要的是逻辑平行,其次才是结构平行。这道题的逻辑结构应该是 “从太阳那里获得体温”与“从燃烧卡路里那里获得体温”这两个意思平行。
根据这个原则,A,D 不对,错误是将“获得体温by drawing body heat” 与“燃烧卡路里 by burning .....” 来平行。
B,E的错误是 连词前后平行对象不一致。B将 generation of body heat 与 drawing their body heat 平行。名词与动词分词平行,而且逻辑上说不通。
E的错误类似。
C 正确。逻辑意识是 体温的获得是 “from 太阳” 而不是 “from 燃烧卡路里来获得 ”。 用了from ...and not from....避免了歧义,很明确的指出了爬行动物从太阳获得体温,而不是通过别的途径。虽然C 的语法结构不是严格一致的,但是它的逻辑结构是唯一平行的。
15: Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require
A: rather than burning calories to generate it
B: rather than the generation of body heat by burning calories
C: and not from generating it by burning calories
D: instead of by burning calories for generating it
E: instead of body heat generated by burning calories
C
1,本身 from doing sth 对不对不去说他, from doing sth1 by doing sth2. 这个结构用的一开就是别扭的表达.长得就是一个错误选项的脸.
2,原句有对比的意味在里面,c就根本少了对比的词,改变了原句的意思,从这点上就是要排除C了.
3, C如果要表达你所说意思,起码应该是
rather than from the burning of calories .... 前面SUN 是个名词,后面起码你得弄个名词/动名词对应, from doing sth1就是一个分词结构前面套了from
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