OG54

54. Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as a person standing on land.

(A)  water as a

(B)  water as to a

(C)  water; just as it would to a

(D)  water, as it would to the  

(E)   water; just as to the

B, the best choice, uses the idiomatic and grammatically parallel form the same to X as to Y. Because A lacks the preposition to, it seems to compare the appearance of natural phenomena to that of a person standing on land. 对于比较结构还是比较模糊,慝请教:在A中,没有TO,那么是什么和什么的比较.在the same ...as... , as...as 结构中,有三个地方可以加入比较成分,在the same之前,在the same ...as中间,在AS 之后,可是到底是谁和谁比较是怎么区分的,是根据逻辑意思判断吗?一直头疼,希望指点一下.

在比如

OG54这种比较对象的确定其实只有逻辑判断，缺少了to结构的A，其as结果甚至可以被看作while来理解；the same to + 人物 对应的肯定是 as to + 人物；

补充133中，E是Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees as they pay to part-time employees；而B是Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees as to part-time employees，单看as...as结构，其实B的表达和E的表达在意思上是完全一致的，而且B更为简洁，因为其仅保留了比较的差异部分；我们可以用一个中文例子来表述：我给你的钱比我给她的钱多，这个句子完全可以再简化：我给你的钱比给她的钱多，两个句子表达的意思相同，所不同的仅仅是后句省略了重复出现的‘我’，而这个省略不会引起歧义；B的错误在于B的are与value单复数不一致，导致错误。