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以下是引用JerryGuan在2004-3-25 2:11:00的发言：
with短语前无逗号，做定语优先修前面的名词。
另，提请注意：The attorney turned down the law firm’s offer of a position because she suspected that it was meant merely to fill an affirmative action quota and did not reflect a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion.
it was meant merely to fill 只意味着充数。。。按常理上说应该是：it meant merely to fill,
但朗文上有：
be meant to do something
a) if you are meant to do something, you should do it, especially because someone has told you to or because you are responsible for it
Come on, Ellen, you're meant to be helping me. I thought the police were meant to protect people.
b) to be intended to do something
The diagram is meant to show the different stages of the process.
这些企业应该是：be intended to fill an affirmative action quota . 而不是：are responsible for an affirmative action quota
在看到下题的OG解释时，突然想起jerryguan上面说的这句话（被highlight的部分），不知道和下面OG解释的是否有冲突？
The Baldrick Manufacturing Company has for several years followed a policy aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving the efficiency of its distribution system.
(A) aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving
(B) aimed at the decreasing of operating costs and to improve
(C) aiming at the decreasing of operating costs and improving
(D) the aim of which is the decreasing of operating costs and improving（A）
(E) with the aim to decrease operating costs and to improve
The best choice, A, offers an adjective phrase (aimed at 是形容词短语，不是动词过去分词) unequivocally modifying policy and exhibiting grammatical parallelism (decreasing... and improving). In choice B, the gerund the decreasing is not grammatically parallel with the infinitive to improve. Likewise, in C and D, the decreasing of... costs is not parallel with improving the efficiency. In E, the infinitives to decrease and to improve, while parallel, are less idiomatic than the prepositional phrase of decreasing... and improving in modifying the noun aim. Also, with the aim... improve can easily be construed as referring to the Baldrick Manufacturing Company and so does not refer unequivocally to policy.
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