标题: OG20-815 So That & So As To 讨论 [打印本页] 作者: 耳朵小丸子 时间: 2019-10-24 18:23 标题: OG20-815 So That & So As To 讨论 Technically, "quicksand " is the term for sand that is so saturated with water as to acquire a liquid`s character.
A.that is so saturated with water as to acquire a liquid's character
B.that is so saturated with water that it acquires the character of a liquid
C.that is saturated with water enough to acquire liquid characteristics
D.saturated enough with water so as to acquire the character of a liquid
E.saturated with water so much as to acquire a liquid character
答案是B。
其实我纠结的是A选项，网上关于这个选项的解释的内容我都看遍了，要么是从语义上去判断，要么是从so that及so as to的用法的区别上去kill A.
前者我get不到点，后者我能找出反例。
外网最多的讨论是so as to有表示intent的meaning，sand是没有意识的，所以没有办法有acquire这个动作，但是我找到了反例。
The Emperor Augustus ,it appears ,commissioned an idealized sculpture portrait ,the features of which are so unrealistic as to constitute what one scholar calls an artificial face.
这里features就能有意识去constitute吗？
如果我理解错了，麻烦NN们指正，谢谢~
今天查阅了OG20，official的回复是这样的
The matter of degree in this option is introduced with the word so, which is used to indicated that the relevent degree of saturation will be specified with a clause that states a condition——a statement that includes both a subject and a verb——that implies a certain degree of saturation. Lacking a subject, this sentences fails to state a clear condition.
我的疑问是，that so....后面的部分的主语不就是sand吗？为什么说缺主语？
作者: Genos.Shi 时间: 2019-10-25 09:37
我觉得是这样的：
①关于A选项我是从a liquid's character来排除的，我认为a liquid's character是指液体的一种character，并没有限定这种character是什么，液体可以有很多种character，但是是否是前文描述的saturated我们无法得知。B选项中有一个the character of a liquid意思就是液体的这种属性，the就是一个有限定的东西，所以我觉得这样表述更优。
②关于你说的那个features constitute... ，我觉得这个constitute并不是一个能表达主动/被动的动词，e.g.Listening, speaking, reading, then writing constitute the fundamental order in language，我不能说这个writing是主动constitute还是被动constitute，而acquire就不同，一般来说是人主动去acquire，如果是被动的获得我认为就不存在acquire这一说了。（不过我觉得so...as to和so...that并不能作为排除这题的主要因素，gmatSC应该多去抓明显的错误）
③我觉得og的意思可能是嫌弃so...as to后面不是一个clause从而嫌弃这个答案，它基于的假设是我们需要用一个clause修饰the degree of the saturation
