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作者: lavenderwu 时间: 2012-11-5 20:45
标题: prep2008 218题求解答
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—less than those killed by bee stings.
A.   movies—less than those
B.   movies—fewer than have been
C.   movies, which is less than those
D.   movies, a number lower than the people
E.   movies, fewer than the ones

请问，如果A改成movies—fewer than those 对吗?
我看到讲解中是这样解释的：“在Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—fewer than …中，不仅仅Only seven people，后面的this century have been killed by the great white shark也都在比较对象里面，所以后文不能用those killed by bee stings，而应该用平行的结构than have been killed。”
不是很明白，是不是说这样有比较great white shark 与people killed by bee stings的歧义？这样一句话对吗：Only seven people this century—fewer than those killed last century.
求好心人解答！

作者: MiaZhang 时间: 2012-11-5 21:50
这个题我也纠结过。。。
个人意见哈~
首先，如果要用those killed by bee stings,那么前面也应该是people killed by white sharks,这两个分词部分都是作为定语出现的才会对称，因为比较本身也是讲究对称的
其次，这个题比较的并不是 people killed by the great white shark和people killed by bee stings, 而是两件事：被鲨鱼杀死的人只有7个，比被蜜蜂蛰死的人数少。所以最好不要改成those killed by...

作者: MiaZhang 时间: 2012-11-5 21:53
找到了Manhattan Ron大神的解说，LZ可以看看
you can't use parallel constructions with "those"/"that"/etc, in separate clauses, unless they are EXACTLY PARALLEL to whatever shows up in the other part.

in this case:
you can't write "those killed by bee stings"
unless
the other part contains "people killed by the great white shark" (with NOTHING IN BETWEEN).
it doesn't, so you can't.

作者: DUKB24 时间: 2012-11-5 21:56

这个题我也纠结过。。。
个人意见哈~
首先，如果要用those killed by bee stings,那么前面也应该是people killed by white sharks,这两个分词部分都是作为定语出现的才会对称，因为比较本身也是讲究对称的
其次，这个题比较的并不是 people killed by the great white shark和people killed by bee stings, 而是两件事：被鲨鱼杀死的人只有7个，比被蜜蜂蛰死的人数少。所以最好不要改成those killed by...

-- by 会员 MiaZhang (2012/11/5 21:50:28)

这题我倒是觉得A选项是可行的

those这里不是精确指代，应该就是指代people，如果是they/them的话就是指代seven people

倒是这个killed单独出现能不能表达和主句的一样的时态我有点不太确定

我记得国外认为如果第二部分是没有出现时态的改变词是默认和前半句一样时态

如果这个结论成立的话，我觉得这个选项是可以的

作者: MiaZhang 时间: 2012-11-5 22:01

-- by 会员 MiaZhang (2012/11/5 21:50:28)

-- by 会员 DUKB24 (2012/11/5 21:56:02)

如果是fewer than those have been killed应该就没错了吧？
看Ron的解释，感觉像是在强调逻辑意思优先，如果只是比较主语的话，句子的逻辑重心会不会就改变了？

作者: sisichen666 时间: 2012-11-5 22:09
对于A选项：先看下错误部分：less错误；those指代people，比较对象没有问题，但是比较结构上却不平行，前面用的是主谓结构：people是主语，been killed是谓语，而后面虽然也是those（people）比较，可却没有用谓语（split——B），加上have been就是进一步突出强调主语在比较，感觉有总比没有逻辑性更明确吧

作者: DUKB24 时间: 2012-11-5 22:49

-- by 会员 MiaZhang (2012/11/5 21:50:28)

-- by 会员 DUKB24 (2012/11/5 21:56:02)

-- by 会员 MiaZhang (2012/11/5 22:01:09)

嗯

你说的在理

应该还要补出have been才对

要求最优美的对称和平行

作者: lavenderwu 时间: 2012-11-7 18:06
明白了，这题关键在于什么和什么比较。Ron写的很精准。谢谢各位哈！

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