同意A Unlike that of earlier works on slavery, Blassingame’s innovative study relies not on the records of White slave owners but on the records of the salves themselves, especially the 70 or so autobiographies and memoirs that have been preserved. 这句话潜在逻辑说明了,(that of) earlier works relies on the records of the salves themselves.
那么我觉得关键问题在于,works(复数)的具体定义,能否基于records就写出来,还是要基础study才能写出来。
查了webster关于work意思是作品的时候的英文解释: something that results from a particular manner or method of working, operating, or devising 那么可以看出来, 作品应该是基于某个特定行为或方法而写出来的,而不是基于某样事物写出来的
再查rely on的解释: longman的解释: to trust or depend on someone or something to do what you need or expect them to do 既然如此,再查depend on的解释: if something depends on something else, it is directly affected or decided by that thing 注意,directly affected or decided. 那么作品应该是直接被研究影响,间接被记录影响的。 所以也就是说应该是研究基于记录,而不是作品基于记录... 因此works relies on the records of White slave是欠妥的,而study relies on the records(that只能指代study)更加妥当。
因此works relies on the records of White slave是欠妥的,而study relies on the records(that只能指代study)更加妥当。
open for discussion ... PS:看来得下个firefox了...IE,Maxthon怎么编辑格式都很难看...
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