og12 sc 48 work当“工作”讲为什么可数？

719870465 · 发表于 2010-10-7 02:37:31

In 1713, Alexander , Pope began his translation of the Iliad, a
work that, taking him seven years until completion, and
that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope’s contemporary,
pronounced the greatest translation in any language.
?? (B) his translation of the Iliad, a work that took him seven
years to complete and that literary critic Samuel Johnson,
Pope’s contemporary, pronounced
?? (C) his translation of the Iliad, a work that had taken seven
years to complete and that literary critic Samuel Johnson,
Pope’s contemporary, pronounced it as
?? (D) translating the Iliad, a work that took seven years until
completion and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope’s
contemporary, pronounced it as
?? (E) translating the Iliad, a work that had taken seven years
to complete and literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope’s
contemporary, pronounced it
答案选B没有疑问。主要是关于work可不可数的问题。我记得表示“工作”是不可数名词，表示“著作，作品”可数。若a work指代的是iliad，逻辑上不对，第一书不能完成，第二这本书不是他写的，应该修饰“翻译”；但是从语法上看，若是指代translation这项工作，那work前面怎么还能加a呢？纠结了半天了，请各位指教！

shanjun0888 · 发表于 2010-10-7 10:40:21

我觉得translation的理解不用那么狭义，它可以理解为翻译工作（抽象），也可以理解为译文（具体）。。。这样的话就可以和work相对应。。。

719870465 · 发表于 2010-10-7 13:10:53

还是那个问题，如果不是工作，那为什么用complete，og解释说这样逻辑不对

shanjun0888 · 发表于 2010-10-7 13:16:31

complete后面一定要接工作么？应该没有这样的说法吧。。。。。

719870465 · 发表于 2010-10-7 14:37:56

可能是我误解了og解释：“Pope’s translation of the Iliad, not the Iliad itself,
took seven years to complete”。说这是错的是因为Iliad不是pope写的，不能由pope来complete Iliad，而译文是pope complete的，是这样么？我以为og的意思是一本书不能去complete，而是一项工作才能complete，我误会og的意思了。明白了，谢谢你了！

zhanhualv · 发表于 2010-10-7 14:38:03

A work 一部作品——他的翻译也是一部作品,名字叫做《XXX中文版》，maybe

FactOrFiction · 发表于 2011-3-28 23:36:55

查下longman或者webster就可以知道了. 我手头没电子版, 贴不上来.

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