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作者: peachball 时间: 2006-9-1 11:50
标题: OG11 4

A survey by the National Council of Churches showed that in 1986 there were 20,736 female ministers, almost 9 percent of the nation's clergy, twice as much
as 1977.

A)twice as much as 1977
B)twice as many as 1977
C)double what it was in 1977
D)double the figure for 1977
E)a number double that of 1977's
答案选D

这里的DOUBLE是做动词用的吗?那它的主语是不是20736呢,可是逗号能隔开两句句子吗

到底该怎么理解double the figure for 1977在整句句子中的作用呢?

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作者: peachball 时间: 2006-9-1 22:01
up~

作者: ky86 时间: 2006-9-2 00:59

请参阅牛津词典DOUBLE的词意和用法-某条说道: verb, become twice as much/many (eg. membership almost doubled in two years)

但是,这里的确是将DOUBLE用为VERB了么?好象不是耶~~~我认为这里应该是用的形容词形式啦.你还是看词典里的解释哈: adj. twice as much/many, 你看,A/B中twice as much/many完全可以被DOUBLE一个词搞定,那当然是DOUBLE优于twice as much/many了呀,于是这里根据你对DICTION of double的掌握就杀了A/B.

C/E都犯了awkward/wordy的冲,当然你硬套所谓"规则"也是保险的:

排除C: the figure(名词)优于what it was(名词从句)

排除E: a number double that of 1977's(唐僧到令人发指啊,就算我们不是NATIVE SPEAKER,我们也不要吝啬自己那点苍白的语感~~~把它杀了吧还是...)

作者: daisylan 时间: 2006-9-2 02:01

A) twice as much as 1977

B) twice as many as 1977

C) double what it was in 1977

D) double the figure for 1977

E) a number double that of 1977's

1) parallelism error of 'as.. as' in A B, compare figure or ministers with year
2) 'it' is not clear in C
3) E has grammatical error
4) D 'double the figure for 1977' act as 同位语，'double' is adj. here modify the noun 'the figure'

作者: lowree 时间: 2006-11-6 18:09

Ky86, you make me laugh...Kill it, P--lease...

Yet, still a little puzzled abou your explanation above. We all know from OG that the modified "twice as many as in 1997" is also a correct answer, while as per your quote from the dic that "double" equates to "twice as many/much", shall we build another answer by repalcing "twice as many" with "double" in the above correct answer, say "double as in 1997"? This phrasing sounds very awkward to me though...

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作者: everann 时间: 2006-11-6 22:02

以下是引用daisylan在2006-9-2 2:01:00的发言：

A) twice as much as 1977

B) twice as many as 1977

C) double what it was in 1977

D) double the figure for 1977

E) a number double that of 1977's

i agree.

for more examples:

His income is double hers.

He earns double what she does.

We need double the amount we have.

Here, double means twice as much or as many.

ky86 is so interesting a guy..

作者: FlowerJay 时间: 2006-11-7 05:06
说说我的想法，完全从语法角度分析。首先twice是副词，至今没有见过他来单独引导成分。我们知道分词，形容词，名词可以引导一个修饰成分或修饰全句，或修饰某一个词，或作同位语。因此A和B即使有in/for也是不对的，因为twice没有修饰的对象。OG证明，twice作为副词必然有它的agent。C中，it指代不清。E中，double明显应该是doubles,就算是理解成省略is的独立主格，其伴随状态不合乎逻辑。1977's也不对。

作者: FlowerJay 时间: 2006-11-7 05:06
个人认为，D的理解似乎不是同位语，因为它合同位语的用法不符合。同位语必须有其对等对象，但是前句中没有一个这样的名次。我觉得这个D是一个 (which is) double the figure for 1977 的省略表达。which指代整句，由于出现which会歧义所以就把它省略了。不妨把它定义成adj+n来共同解释前面整句内容。这个是OG11的新题，OG10里面似乎没有出现过类似用法。请高人指教

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