The investigations of many psychologistsand anthropologists support the generalization oftherebeing little that is a significant difference in the underlying mentalprocesses manifested by people from different cultures.
(A) of there being little that is asignificant difference
(B) of there being little that issignificantly different
(C) of little that is significantlydifferent
(D) that there is little that issignificantly different
(E) that there is little of significant differences
答案是D,
笔记上说D优于E的原因是:significant differences在这里可以理解为有重要意义的区别,也可以理解为重要的区别,因此不如significantly表达意思清楚”...
我怎么觉得是E错在:little of 后面应该是单数,而E中differences是复数了...
请各位指教~谢谢啦~
-- by 会员 angel0428 (2010/1/10 13:33:46)
significant differences 和 significantly different 都可以,关键看前后怎么搭配。
如果 differences 的话,由于是可数,则得用few。此外,... of ...放在此处不正确。此处讲的是difference as a whole, 而不是说difference里面包含的某些东西。换句话说,few/ little of something, 是重点表达something的一部分干嘛了。这里完全没有此意。
所以,E的表达方法,如果要正确,必须改写为:that there are few significant differences
-- by 会员 specta (2011/10/24 16:23:50)
believe it or not, most of the time, in = among, 此处不例外。
-- by 会员 specta (2011/10/24 17:05:51)