P27页的E2-9题 The commission acknowleged that (no amount of money or staff members) can ensure the safety of people who live in the vicinty of a nuclear plant, but it approved the installation because it believed that all reasonable precautions had been taken. (A) no amount of money or staff members (B) neither vast amounts of money nor staff members (C) neither vast amounts of money nor numbers of staff members (D) neither vast amounts of money nor a large staff (E) no matter how large the staff or how vast the amount of money
正确答案是D 我的思路如下: 首先想到简洁的原则,就把E这个罗嗦的讲法排除掉了; 其次想到题目中no amount of money or staff members的no到底是修饰前面的这个名词还是后面的这个名词可能产生误解,如果使用neither nor结构就没有误解,就定位在BCD三个选项上。 最后想到要对称的原则,两个并列的名词中第一个是钱的数量,那么第二个就一定是讲人的个数,所以我把答案锁定在了C上(numbers of members)。 其实这个题目句子这么长,生词这么多,要我在那么短短的一分多钟时间里读懂根本不可能。我到现在还没读懂。哪位能出面翻译一下这个句子,并且顺便详细解释一下为什么选D才对呢?