Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise, the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulf most of the world's great cities.
Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise, the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulf most of the world’s great cities.
is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise,
is so reflective that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; were it to do so,
so reflective that little polar ice melts during the summer, or else
reflective, so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer, or
reflects so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; if it did
以下是引用rhod在2005-4-6 22:04:00的发言:
2、little 和 little of 的区别 看了几个回帖,发现大家都没有注意到这道题的奥妙。我的解题思路是这样的:这题划线后是虚拟语气,划线前是一般现在时,所以or else必错。需要一个分号和虚拟条件句,所以合适的选项是B, E。E有明显错误,可以排除。 但是 朗文中的这个例句和前辈所说正好矛盾!这如何解释呢? I had to defend myself or else he'd have killed me.
不过楼主的例句真的让我困惑了很久,可我觉得这里把整个the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulf most of the world’s great cities. 当做or else是不合适的,因为原意的otherwise也是加了逗号的,说明整个the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulf most of the world’s great cities.应该是虚拟的主句,这样看来B是最合适的。不过这样分析确实太牵强了
同意这种说法,纠结万年的一道GWD 出现在新PREP上,也说明了这个问题。 新PREP2-Q228: So dogged were Frances Perkins' investigations of the garment industry, so persistent her lobbying for wage and hour reform, that Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government, rather than as a social worker.
说明be的平行中的省略时可以被ETS原谅的。
LDOCE对or else的解释:
2 or else spoken a) used to say that there will be a bad result if someone does not do something : Hurry up or else we’ll miss the train.
b) used to say what another possibility might be : The salesman will reduce the price or else include free insurance.
c) used to threaten someone : Hand over the money, or else!