关于heavy commitment by an executive各种解释。此贴为汇总贴，无提问~ - ChaseDream

Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

A. Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
B. An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that worked well in the past, makes missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting ones likely when they do appear.
C. An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.
D. Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear.
E. Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
c中it为什么会指代不清？
Everything is fine until we get to "especially if it has worked in the past." The way it is phrases, we can't tell for sure what has worked in the past. Is that referring to a course of action or misintepretation of signs of incipient trouble? If C is to be correct it should say,

"An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked in the past, is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear."也就是it和其指代的名词离太远，或者可以记成it不可以越过谓语指代

这里不同意LZ的中文总结“it不可以越过谓语指代”的这一说。代词指代没有就近指代这一说。尤其在两个句子平行的情况下，clause one AND clause two. 经常可以出现第二个从句主语（代词）指代第一个从句的主语（被指代对象）。C中的IT 关键是前面句子中出现了超过一个可以做为指代对象的NOUN，并且更要命的是这些指代对象和代词不处于平行的对等位置上。所以OG说它指代模糊。

-- by 会员 abjure (2012/8/15 15:05:32)