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204. In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

(A)  in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics

(B)  in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers

(C)  partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics

(D)  partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers

（E）partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers

原题如上，ETS的选择是E。请问有人可以将整句翻译成中文吗？我做的失手选了D，因为觉得E的意思不对。可能有哪个弯没能转过来。请大侠们帮忙。谢谢。

你可以搜索一下哦

我觉得有个网友讲的很好的哦

不过我也选了D，当时还很得意

关键是： to  表示目的

because 是因果

因果和目的这样子的关系不能互相交换的

至于翻译中文，因为涉及专业词汇，我就不整出来贻笑大方了

有地雷阿

我也做错了，和大家一样选了D，有没有更详细点的解释

可否这样理解

acquire这个词的施动者必须是有意识的个体（人），所以不能是their steers,只能是主句主语cattle breeders。

因此，CD中acquire表述的都是steers是施动者，只有E中breeders（人）是施动者。

只能选E，别无它议。

这道题有个关键就是steer的意思是“a young male cow whose sex organs have been removed
——see also bullock, heifer”是指被阉割的小牛