Nobody knows exactly how many languages there are in the world, partly because of the difficulty of distinguishing between a language and the sublanguages or dialects within it, but those who have tried to count typically have found about five thousand.
句子到 within it是完整的, but之后的句子是个补充modifier clause. count可以不加them,而且加了them反倒感觉这个指代不清。 虽然知道是指代泛指不同语言,可具体的到底是说languages, sublanguages, or including all dialects 呢? 本来句子就告诉我们这个数法无法精确定义,后面补充只是指出一个大概的范围在5000左右。那这个them到底说的哪种数法,sublanguages and dialects又都是如何定义和区分的呢。
想弱弱的问一句 为什么within 后面跟的是it啊 代指的是什么啊 我认为应该是them 代指前面的 a language and the sublanguages or dialects
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-- by 会员 wildchild (2010/4/25 22:56:52)
这里用一种language来举例,主要结构是between...and...,你要分清楚并列的内容是什么(a language)和(the sublanguages or dialects)整体并列,(sublanguages)和 (dialects)并列,而(the sublanguages or dialects)在逻辑上是指一种language下的多种分支,所以是within it
老实说我做题的时候是直接排除了有it的选项,因为当时想的是between X and Y, 那么within肯定是within them 而不是within it,我立即秒杀了D,E,A,C 但是,结论是B,那么也就是说,within them是错的,而应该是within it,why? 请教了身边的一个小N,原来是自己的理解有误 distinguishing between a language and the sublanguages or dialects within it 也就是说between a language and [the sublanguages or dialets within the language(就是这个 a language)] 这个sublanguages or dialects都是在 a language下面的 within并不是包含在between ... and ...之间,而是修饰和限制and 后面的与 a language平行的部分the sublanguages or dialects 的
想弱弱的问一句 为什么within 后面跟的是it啊 代指的是什么啊 我认为应该是them 代指前面的 a language and the sublanguages or dialects