标题: 12版红OG662页26题求教 [打印本页] 作者: EdwardMa 时间: 2011-1-24 22:57 标题: 12版红OG662页26题求教 12版红OG662页26题： Emily Dickinson's letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else. (A) Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering (B) Dickinson were written over a period that begins a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ended shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber (C) Dickinson, written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and that ends shortly before Emily’s death in 1886 and outnumbering (D) Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother, ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, and outnumbering (E) Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber 答案是E选项，我的理解是这应该是一个并列句，就是letters were written..., outnumbered....这里，outnumber应该用和were written一样的过去时才对吧？反观A选项，用一个分词结构做定语来避免了时态的问题，不是更好吗？
请赐教，谢谢！作者: zhepeking 时间: 2011-1-25 00:15
A选项读起来相当别扭，和它所要修饰的letters相隔太远，这不是习惯的表达方式，如果非要用这种结构，我觉得outnumbering her letters to anyone else可以作为插入语放在Emily Dickinson's letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson和were之间，不过这样句子的重心就发生变化了，也不符合要求，所以还是E最好，而且which是不用于修饰人的，这里这能修饰letters，没有歧义作者: EdwardMa 时间: 2011-1-25 01:22
谢谢zhepeking这么晚还回帖！
关于修饰距离较远我明白，但是E的时态不是还有问题吗？Outnumber不是应该用过去式吗？作者: EdwardMa 时间: 2011-1-26 22:41
顶一顶，盼高人。作者: evelyn205205 时间: 2011-1-26 22:50
再多读读原文，你会发现outnumber是整句话的谓语动词，而“which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886”是用来修饰letters的， 比较一下A和E，E的表达更简洁咯作者: EdwardMa 时间: 2011-1-26 23:24
谢谢evelyn205205！
终于明白了，把定从去掉就好看很多： Emily Dickinson's letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson outnumber her letters to anyone else.