At the annual stockholders meeting, investors heard a presentation on the numerous challenges facing the company, including among them the threat from a rival’s multibillion-dollar patent-infringement suit and the declining sales for the company’s powerful microprocessor chip.
A. including among them the threat from a rival’s multibillion-dollar patentinfringement suit and the declining sales for B. which includes the threat of a rival’s multibillion-dollar patent-infringement suit and declining sales of C. included among these the threat from a rival’s multibillion-dollar patentinfringement suit as well as a decline in sales for D. among them the threat of a rival’s multibillion-dollar patent-infringement suit and the decline in sales of E. among these the threat from a rival’s multibillion-dollar patent-infringement suit as well as the decline in sales for
among them the threat of a rival’s multibillion-dollar patent-infringement suit and the decline in sales of the company’s powerful microprocessor chip. 后半句是独立主格的一种用法(Nominative Absolute Construction) 即 ‘名词+介词短语’做独立主格 但由于名词部分过长,因而独立主格结构中又使用了倒装,把among them提到了前面,them指代numerous challenges.
among them the threat of a rival’s multibillion-dollar patent-infringement suit and the decline in sales of the company’s powerful microprocessor chip. 后半句是独立主格的一种用法(Nominative Absolute Construction) 即 ‘名词+介词短语’做独立主格 但由于名词部分过长,因而独立主格结构中又使用了倒装,把among them提到了前面,them指代numerous challenges.
D答案还原后 sales of the company’s powerful microprocessor chip,不是犯了of + 所有格的大忌了吗?白勇和PREP语法笔记都提到这种形式是错误的
-- by 会员 xqjason (2010/3/21 22:31:15)
如果是sales of the company’s ,说公司的销售,那就错了 但这里是sales of the company’s powerful microprocessor chip,说的是公司的chip的销售,对的
-- by 会员 cannahere (2010/3/21 22:50:51)
of + 所有格不是错误的,是双重所有格。双重所有格和单独的所有格的意思不同。 a friend of my father 我爸爸的朋友 a friend of my father's 我爸爸的朋友中的一个 薄冰语法中一个很好的例子,可以说明这两种用法的不同: -Who said so? -A friend of your father's. -If he said such things, he is not a friend of my father.