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新手的新手，刚刚开始，翻了一下档案，似乎没有人问OG1, 可是我就是有些不明白，请求帮助。

1. The Wallerstein study indicates that even after a decade young men and women still experience some of the effects of a divorce occurring when a child.
A. occurring when a child
B. occurring when children
C. that occurred when a child
D. that occurred when they were children
E. that has occurred as each was a child

Choice D is best. The phrasing a divorce that occurred when they were children correctly uses the relative clause that occurred to modify a divorce and includes a pronoun and verb (they were) that refer unambiguously to their antecedent, men and women. Choice A incorrectly introduces the when... phrase with occurring, thus illogically making divorce the grammatical referent of when a child; furthermore, the singular child does not agree with the plural men and women. B replaces child with children but otherwise fails to correct A's errors of structure and logic, and C corrects only the error created by occurring. Choice E includes an incorrect verb tense (has occurred) and wrongly replaces when with as. Also, each was does not properly refer to men and women.

不明白的是上面的有关A地解释。为什么说把when用在occurring后面， divorce成了when a child的逻辑主语了呢？谢谢！

Choice A incorrectly introduces the when... phrase with occurring, thus illogically making divorce the grammatical referent of when a child

choice A 错误的将（正确的）when从句改为（错误的）occurring，因此，不合乎逻辑地将divorce作为句子语法上的指代词

谢谢哥哥的支点。但是有些不明白的是when用在occurring后面就有这个问题呢？occurring在这里是分词吗？我觉得它是修饰divorce的。知道when a child 是一个不完整的壮语丛句。但是它跟divorce是什么关系呢？如果这句改成: a divorce occurring when they were children是否就对了？

when a child和divorce的确没有什么关系，这也是为什么A错；句子想表达的是：年轻人们还生活在离婚的阴影中，而这些离婚事件都是发生在他们还是小孩的时候。（显然是他们父母离婚）

以下是引用SunnyBean在2004-6-24 3:54:00的发言：

谢谢哥哥的支点。但是有些不明白的是when用在occurring后面就有这个问题呢？occurring在这里是分词吗？我觉得它是修饰divorce的。知道when a child 是一个不完整的壮语丛句。但是它跟divorce是什么关系呢？如果这句改成: a divorce occurring when they were children是否就对了？这句话不好，occur 很少用进行时，就像happen一样

问题多多。谢谢啦！

综合两位的解释，我明白了用occurring 是不恰当的。但是我就笨在这里了，我还是不明白选项A这句错的话（意思明白了）的结构， OG说因为when从句的加入，使得divorce不合逻辑的成为"when a child"所指。但是，我怎么就看不明白为什么"when a child" 指divorce? when a child根本就是一个不完整的时间状语丛句。我想这里一定有一个语法现象我没有掌握，ETS不可能出一个这么明显的错句的。不要嫌我笨在解释一下吧。谢谢了先！！！！

明白了明白了。下面的连接是很好的解释。给那些看到我的帖子和我一样有问题的人。谢谢gg们的帮忙。