262 | Meaning is everything!!! i)Less than 20 dollars--less than the amount of money强调money ii)Fewer than 20 dollar bills--actual pieces of paper强调那纸 | i)Fewer pounds of shad--different numbers of pounds 强调不同的数额的 pound ii)Less pounds of shad-- different amount of fish 强调shad, the fish Less is more appropriate | Shad: a kind of fish 红鲱鱼 |
小心所有格's和代词同时出现的情况 代词指代的antecedent必须是N 不能是ADJ. | EG:have blocked Shad migrations up their spawning streams 这里的shed做的是形容词,本身这个their应该指代的是shad,这里因为shad作形容词,their错误指代migrations | EG:Shakespeare's |
| 正确:blocked shad from migrating up their spawning streams | |
But前后可以用两种时态,前提是必须有时间标志词 | EG:Around 1900 过去式, but by 1920 过去完成时 | EG:过去式 in the early 1980s, but less than ten years later, 过去完成时 |
现在完成时/过去完成时: i)Continued action:过去的动作持续到现在这个点/过去的过去的动作持续到过去那个点 ii)Continued effect:过去的动作或行为的影响持续到现在/过去的过去的动作或行为的影响持续到过去 | 此题为什么用过去完成时而不是过去时: 1) By 1920 时间标志词 2) overfishing和proliferation of milldams and culverts的影响持续到1920(过去的那个时点) | i)"Less than ten years later" 以“ten year later"为1980(原题给的)的后十年来说,less than that意味着在过去(1980+10)往回推,因为不到十年 ii)Continued effect原文句意很有意思 在曼哈顿SC纸质总结Verbs第八章里 |