请教一道假设题。

coocooper · 发表于 2010-7-28 16:18:14

one sure way you can tell how quickly a new idea, for example, the idea of "privatization" , is taking hold among the population is to monitor how fast the word or words expressing that particular idea are passing into common usage. Professional opinions of whether or not words can indeed be said to have passed into common usage are available from dictionary editors, who are vitally concerned with this question.
The method described above for determing how quickly a new idea is taking hold relies on which one of the following assumptions.
A. Dictionary editors are not professionally interested in words that are only rately used.
B. Dictionary editors have exact numerical criteris for telling when a word has passed into common usage.
C. For a new idea to take hold, dictionary editors have to include the relevant word or words in their dictionaries.
D. As a word passes into common usage, its meaning does not udergo any severe distortions in the process.
E. Words denoting new ideas tend to be used before the ideas denoted are understood.

答案选D，为什么呀？我选了B，因为只有dictionary editors知道在什么标准下这些词成为了common usage，找他们才有用啊。。

小伊YSY · 发表于 2010-8-3 16:46:13

题目的论点在于可以用字典去界定一个词是否成为common usage
需要填充的其中一个gap就是字典是否能有效实行界定
D中保证了词汇的意义不会改变，可以填充这样一个gap，所以是个有效的假设，是论点成立的前提之一
A,B,C,E实际上可以算是无关选项

关于B，lz可以试想下，如果dictionary editors已经知道在什么样的标准去界定，那么题目本身就无效了
因为本质上就是为了要找这样个标准，才提出使用字典的

alex318 · 发表于 2011-10-12 23:43:55

题目的论点在于可以用字典去界定一个词是否成为common usage
需要填充的其中一个gap就是字典是否能有效实行界定
D中保证了词汇的意义不会改变，可以填充这样一个gap，所以是个有效的假设，是论点成立的前提之一
A,B,C,E实际上可以算是无关选项

关于B，lz可以试想下，如果dictionary editors已经知道在什么样的标准去界定，那么题目本身就无效了
因为本质上就是为了要找这样个标准，才提出使用字典的

-- by 会员小伊YSY (2010/8/3 16:46:13)

如何看出题目的论点在于 “可以用字典去界定一个词是否成为common usage”？，我的理解是“ Professional opinions of whether or not words can indeed be said to have passed into common usage are available from dictionary editors”，题目里不是根本没有提到用字典去界定么，而是dictionay editor能给perfessional opinions么？

christete · 发表于 2011-10-14 19:38:37

顶，纠结地题目

bluesolo · 发表于 2012-2-20 22:43:55

逻辑链条：
"how quick" is determined by words expression that particular idea are passing into common usage

其实这道题目恨容易忽视一个细节： expressiong that particular idea. 所以D选项就是保证particular idea的

验证D，对D取非，意思是，一个词变成了common usage，但是它的词义已经变了，那么题干中的结论就不能保证了。
所以D正确

请教一道假设题。

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