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有理想没有钱

Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of the Maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete them.

A.
took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete them
B.
took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete it
C.
took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete
D.
700,000 artisans took more than 36 years to complete
E.
to complete them too 700,000 artisans more than 36 years 我想请问下，答案B是怎么错误，我们初中就学过IT TOOK SB SOME TIME TO DO STH. 如果不选B，那不是掉了STH，我不是很理解这题答案为什么选C，他的理由是不定式修饰TOOK, 那要是这样说，以后所有的IT TOOK......, 后面都不加DO STH.
请好心人解释，谢谢

h14zpsn

这是个被动语态，所以complete后面不用 补上多余的宾语，把所有结构都去掉相当于the army of TCW is took sb. sometime to complete.

teddybearj4

LS解释得不太对哦~

就拿LZ举得例子：it took sb. sometime to do sth.
这里的it是形式主语，实际上是后面的to do sth.

而这里的and前后是并列关系：
the army of terra-cotta warriors（ created to protect Qin Shi Huang）, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old andtook 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete them.
提取主干是sth. took sb. sometime to do.

有理想没有钱

您的意思，原来我们都说IT TOOK SB SOMETIME TO DO STH, IT是形式主语指代TO DO STH, 所以替代IT后，我们就说原来的结构就变成 STH TOOK SB SOME TIME TO DO, 是这样理解吗，对吗，请好心人回复，谢谢。