标题: 有关修饰的歧义 [打印本页] 作者: justabeginning 时间: 2011-11-25 09:39 标题: 有关修饰的歧义 大家先看一下这道OGverbal上的题目： Initiated five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World on Columbus Day 1992. Project SETI pledged a $100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
(A) Initiated five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World on Columbus Day 1992, Project SETI pledged a $100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. (B) Initiated on Columbus Day 1992, five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World, a $100 million investment in the search for -extraterrestrial intelligence was pledged by Project SETI. (C) Initiated on Columbus Day 1992, five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World, Project SETI pledged a $100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. (D) Pledging a $100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the . initiation of Project SETI five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World on Columbus Day 1992. (E) Pledging a $100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World, on Columbus Day 1992, the initiation of Project SETI took place.
用排除法最后只剩下C，没有问题。但是读了几遍正确选项后我又觉得这种句子结构并不是很好：Initiated on Columbus Day 1992, five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World, Project SETI pledged......
然而，如果把句子变成：Initiated on Columbus Day 1992 and completed on Christmas Day 1999, five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World, Project SETI pledged....... 这样的话就会有歧义了，因为five centries..即可能修饰1999又有可能修饰pledge的时间（1992)
想听一下大家的看法作者: kidvii 时间: 2011-11-25 23:24
Initiated on Columbus Day 1992, five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World, Project SETI pledged......
, five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World,向前向后修饰都没有问题。