og 11 紫色 SC 第4题

请教各位大侠

The voluminous personal papers of Thomas Alva Edison reveal that his inventions typically sprang to life not in a flast of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous work.

(A) sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

(C) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

答案选C，解释说

A. Construction following not is not parallel to the construction following but.

C. In this sentence, not is followed by the verb spring just as
            but is followed by the verb evolved.

个人认为A比较好吧。sprang 和 evolved 是parallel的啊。为什么not 和but之后的要parallel啊？

请哪位大侠指点迷津，多谢。

你反对一个观点(not)，就要提出一个相应的新观点啊(but)，而且这两个观点应该说得是同一类事情(sprang/evolved)

这样解释不知道清楚伐？

注意平行结构spring 对 evolve

多谢各位，多读了几遍有点感觉了，not 和 but是呼应的。

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