标题: 在princeton review看到这样一道填空题 [打印本页] 作者: erencie 时间: 2012-5-29 17:19 标题: 在princeton review看到这样一道填空题 Her performance review noted that Jill suffers from a lack of ___, and often makes insulting remarks despite her best efforts to be polite; worse, the review went on to point out that it happens regularly, even though she has no intention of ___ anyone.
blank (i) A, candor, B, tact, C, deference blank (ii) D, exacerbating, E, touting, F, denigrating.
我选了CF. 可是答案是BF. 我觉得答案好像错了。deference means being humble and polite. 正好跟题符合。
I think I roughly get the meaning. We can't say she's lack of politeness because she is trying to be polite. So a lack of tacts is more appropriate to explain her lack of common sense in terms of politeness.