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标题: 一道Cambridge ED GMAT上面的SC [打印本页]

作者: huanya85 时间: 2008-1-30 17:42
标题: 一道Cambridge ED GMAT上面的SC

这是一道SC题目请大家看看：

Having been forbidden by Church law to marry, it was not unusual for a priest during the Middle Ages to sire a family.

D. Although a priest was forbidden by Church law to marry, it was not unusual for him during the Middle Ages to sire a family.

E.Although they were forbidden by Church law to marry, it was not unusual for priests during the Middle Ages to sire families.

Answer: E

The original sentence commites an error of logical expression. ....The D choice changes the intended meaning of the original by implying that there was a single priest who sired several families.

我觉得比较奇怪，因为也有很多句子，用单数来陈述普遍的情况。而且E里面，我觉得they先行在although后面的句子里面，对应"it was....for priests...."中的priests，这种结构好么？

望指点！

作者: plato1983 时间: 2008-1-31 09:43
The D choice changes the intended meaning of the original by implying that there was a single priest who sired several families.没看出来，反而E倒像有这个问题。而且E还有楼主说的问题。

作者: 足球幽灵 时间: 2008-1-31 11:40

正如LZ所说，a表示泛指，但是在D中的主句中出现了him，感觉像又在特指一个男的。

个人理解，欢迎指正

作者: 小W 时间: 2008-1-31 12:12

a priest 。。。him 将泛指变成了特指。

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作者: plato1983 时间: 2008-1-31 13:54
但用单数表泛指，后面应该用什么代词呢？

作者: 小W 时间: 2008-1-31 16:28

以下是引用plato1983在2008-1-31 13:54:00的发言：
但用单数表泛指，后面应该用什么代词呢？

你说得对。起是我觉得怪怪是前面的a priest.

原句中 it was not unusual for a priest during the Middle Ages to sire a family. 这里就是单数泛指，都没有意见。

但是 D. Although a priest was forbidden by Church law to marry，这里我觉得是特指。

我不太懂那些语法术语，但是凭语感这2个"a priest"似乎不太一样，因为后者多了个单数谓语动词，而且在翻译成中文的时候比较难体现泛指。如果不是这样的话，不知能否举1，2个像d这样单数泛指的例子。请指教。

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