借og 130 问代词指代问题

130. In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of their ancestral lands in the eighteenth century.

(A) that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of
(B) that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians because of their unlawful seizure of
(C) two upstate New York counties to owe restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for their unlawful seizure of
(D) on two upstate New York counties that owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians because they unlawfully seized
(E) on the restitution that two upstate New York counties owed to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of

og解释说：The plural pronouns their in B and C and they' in D are confusing as references to counties, especially since their refers to the Oneida in the phrase their ancestral lands.

不知道为什么BCD中的they,their就必指countries无疑了，明明也有个Oneida可以指代嘛，好，那么你说代词前面不应该有2个以上的名词造成指代不明。那题干中的their前面也同样有countries和Oneida两个名词，怎么这次就指代明确了呢？好，你又说从逻辑句意判断BCD中的they,their应该指代countries, 可我怎么觉得从句意上判断they, their也应该指代Oneida啊？

谢谢了。

MM写得好多，看得晕

B错在划线部分their指代不明，按逻辑是指counties(优先指代句子主语)，但与后面未划线部分中的their指代Indians，两者不是同一指代对象，所以错!

不知能否解决了你的疑问

“按逻辑”就是你说的“优先指代句子主语嘛？”

我知道现在“就近修饰”早已经在cd上被否认了，“逻辑为先”的意思就是先看句子主语嘛？不合适就是指代不清咯？