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标题: [讨论]OG11（黄）-SC-67的一个小角落-in doing sth [打印本页]

作者: sicivi 时间: 2008-8-4 04:00
标题: [讨论]OG11（黄）-SC-67的一个小角落-in doing sth

67. Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients’ misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy, the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.

(A) in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy

(B) if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some food

(D) if some food allergy is attributed as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

(E) in attributing a food allergy as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

Logical predication + Idiom

The original sentence contains an incorrect idiom and a misplaced modifier. The correct idiom in the active voice is one attributes x (an effect) toy (a cause).

In the passive voice, x (the effect) is attributed to y (the cause). The modifying phrase (in attributing...) incorrectly describes perpetrators when it should describe defense attorneys. The best way to correct the sentence is to transform the modifying phrase into a subordinate clause that uses the idiom correctly: criminal or delinquent behavior (x) is attributed to (verb phrase) an allergy to some food (y).

A Misplaced modifier; incorrect idiom

B Correct. In this sentence, the modification error has been eliminated with the use of the correct idiom, is attributed to.

C Modifier describes perpetrators, not attorneys; wordy and imprecise

D X is attributed as the cause of y is not the correct Idiom

E Modifier incorrectly describes perpetrators, idiom is misused

The correct answer is B.

OG并没有否定“In attributing ...”的用法，只是说它修饰对象不正确。假设修饰对象是attorneys的话，这里的"In doing..."是个怎样的用法呢？

个人认为By attributing 更合适啊！请讨论！

作者: secretsoft 时间: 2008-8-4 04:09
我认为如果修饰attorneys的话，直接用attributing...就可以

作者: rattledrum 时间: 2008-8-5 10:13
attributing就是错的，这里没有任何地方表示有“正在进行”的意思

作者: sicivi 时间: 2008-8-8 05:41

以下是引用rattledrum在2008-8-5 10:13:00的发言：
attributing就是错的，这里没有任何地方表示有“正在进行”的意思

据我理解，Verb-ing 的分词形式本身已经失去了"正在进行"的含义哦！虽然在很多情况下它都被用来表示伴随状态，但不是严格表示时间意义上的。

作者: counyo 时间: 2008-8-15 21:53

attributing的发出者并不是the perpetrators ，所以是错的

作者: iamwuyan 时间: 2008-8-16 01:34
同意楼上的, BUT后面的那个句子应该做为一个整体, ATTRIBUTE的主语不可能是PERPETRATORS

作者: 成思 时间: 2008-8-27 06:47
个人认为此处即使attribute是attorney发出的，也不应该用in,by什么的，就是attributing。
1：如果能用by,那为什么不是in啊？为什么不是with啥的啊？就没有那个用法；
2：此处不是什么“正在进行”之意，是动词的现在分词引导的状语从句，就没有什么in+ing的用法。
3：敬请牛人指正，如果不对，纯属放屁。

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