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标题: OG 89题 [打印本页]

作者: dashasha 时间: 2004-5-7 15:45
标题: OG 89题

A recent national study of the public schools shows that there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were four years ago.

(A) there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were

(B) there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were

(D) every thirty-two pupils now have one microcomputer, four times as many than there were

(E) every thirty-two pupils now has one microcomputer, four times as many as

我对答案C没有异议，我的问题是为什么在答案C里用four times as many as there were而不是there was呢？

作者: LES 时间: 2004-5-7 16:10
mm 先看看下面一个连接吧。

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=26698

作者: X_TonY_X 时间: 2004-5-7 22:19

"there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils"

讲的既是ratio, 也是number of computers, 看后面跟什么，从后面"four times as many as" 看出, 只能比较数量，又因为是there be句型, there were one-quarter as many computers four years ago as there are now, 所以只能用there were.

作者: dashasha 时间: 2004-5-8 02:34

以下是引用LES在2004-5-7 16:10:00的发言：
mm 先看看下面一个连接吧。

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=26698

提问前就看过了，不过还是不明白啊。

作者: dashasha 时间: 2004-5-8 02:39
X_TonY_X,谢谢你的回答。不过你说“因为是there be句型, there were one-quarter as many computers four years ago as there are now, 所以只能用there were”，我不是很理解，你的意思是4年前的computer数量是现在的1/4了？我想那不是原句的意思。原句是there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were，这句前半段说one computer for every 32 pupils,后面应该是there was 1/4 computer for every 32 pupils啊。请继续指正。

作者: ca3ltoys 时间: 2004-5-8 07:30

以下是引用X_TonY_X在2004-5-7 22:19:00的发言：

"there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils"

同意X_TonY_X的见解,使我们对此题豁然开朗.谢谢!

there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils,(好像补全了后是there are) four times as many (computers now )as there were four years ago.除非极端情况,四年前只能1台,而现在有四台, 128个学生.但这也太凑巧了.

作者: cmtn 时间: 2004-5-8 12:13

有这样的一种说法：老外数学不好，又懒得算，于是订下了一条规矩，如果不用计算,单复数一致，such as, there is one computer for, or there are two computers for；如果需要计算不论简单复杂，不管3721一律用复数，such as, four times as many as there were two years ago. Or there are now two computers for each group, two times as many as there are two years ago. 他们到是简单了可难坏数学好的XDJM了。

A suggestion: next time you do not have to make a new post, just 顶出 old post to ask.

作者: cmtn 时间: 2004-5-8 12:20

If anybody need discuss this question in future, please use the old post.

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=23&id=26698

thanks

作者: dashasha 时间: 2004-5-9 08:37

以下是引用ca3ltoys在2004-5-8 7:30:00的发言：

同意X_TonY_X的见解,使我们对此题豁然开朗.谢谢!

不明白，不好意思。前半句是说RATIO，后面怎么说起了数量了呢？前面说有一台计算机给32个学生，是四年前的4倍，只能推导出四年前1/4台计算机给32个学生，但是不能推导出计算机的总数，因为学生数目在4年前和现在不会一样吧？

作者: dashasha 时间: 2004-5-9 16:03
UP一下,不要怪我钻牛角尖啊，请指点啊。

作者: X_TonY_X 时间: 2004-5-9 23:03

MM, 如果是ratio能说as many as吗? 而且ratio也不能用there be 句型, 所以比较的只能是电脑数量. "there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils" 是用表达ratio的方式说出了数量, 同时, 因为是表达ratio, 形式上要求用there is, 但不等于后面比较数量时也要用there was. 另外, 用单数形式表达复数含义在英语中并不少见,比如我说:

Many a student is taking gmat.

作者: wildwest 时间: 2004-8-5 17:03

up!

先看OG的解释[Choices D and E reorder and garble the "one X ..." construction, making four times as many refer illogically to pupils.] 这就是说 four times修饰主句的主语。选项(C) there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were. 主句主语是microcomputer，显然four times 修饰microcomputer,再加之as many as 修饰数量，不可能修饰比率。把(C)后半部分补充完既是 there are microcomputers four times as many as there were four years ago. 前面将比率，后面讲
数量，之所以读起来别扭，是因为我们不适应这种表达习惯。

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