大全878：看了以前的讨论，没有结果

搜索了一下，gemj说以前无数人讨论过，结果我只搜索到两个帖子，还是没有定论的。

Trying to learn some of the basics of programming is the same as to tinker with a car when one is a teenager: some people end up going to engineering school, and others, twenty years later, remember nothing of the experience.

(A) the same as to tinker with a car when one is a teenager

(B) similar to a teenager tinkering with a car

(C) like tinkering with a car as a teenager

(D) the same as a teenager tinkering with a car（A）

(E) like the teenager’s tinkering with a car

不是说to do is to do，doing is doing这样对称吗？可是这道题不是这样啊。那是不是应该说保持形式对称的应该是核心动词，比如Trying to learn some of ……is the same as to tinker with……的核心动词是learn 和 tinker，句子要表示的是learn 和tinker 之间的共性，所以就是to learn is to tinker?

明白了！谢谢斑竹。

55555，真是没天理啊！ETS一会儿说要对称，一会儿又自己省掉一个关键的对称动词，我怎么知道它是错误选项，还是故意省掉动词的正确选项？！郁闷！