以下是引用mrrb7emj在2006-8-29 16:31:00的发言：OG 22题上说 22. The voluminous personal papers of Thomas Alva Edison reveal that his inventions typically sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works. (A) (A) sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly (B) sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but were slowly evolved (C) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly (D) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but
had slowly evolved (E) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but
they were slowly evolved C, the best choice, places not and but in such a way that the distinction between springing to life in a flash of inspiration and evolving slowly is logically and idiomatically expressed. A and B are faulty because, for grammatical parallelism, not in a flash... must be followed by but in..., not by a conjugated form of the verb. Moreover, were slowly evolved is incorrect in B because evolve, in this sense of the word, cannot be made passive(使用被动态一定要由根据). Choices C, D, and E all correctly place not before spring. D, however, contains inconsistent verb tenses; E contains the faulty passive and an intrusive they. 我理解是 evolve在这里是不能PASSIVE 但是大家能不能给一个EVOLVE可以PASSIVE的用法呢 THANKS ALOT Your question reminded me of a TOEFL sentence, which might help. QUOTE: Fish are the most ancient form of vertebrate life,and_________all other vertebrates.
选 from them evolved. from 在这里怎么翻译，是什么意思
1, This is an inversion question. We can use inversion because we have an adverbial phrase, in this case, a prepositional phrase, before the subject and verb.
fish are the most ancient form of life and all other vertebrates evolved from them.
This one is tricky because the inversion occurs in the second main sentence, not in the first.
2. the second trick is whether a word "evolve" is a VT or VI. ??
That sentence could have been written: "...and all other vertebrates evolved from them."
Evolve has a number of meanings.
Here it is meaning gradual change of one thing to another as a result of evolution and we would usually add from, into, or a word like those, for example: "some fish evolved into vertebrates" or "vertebrates evolved from fish". I suppose this would be intransitive.
Another meaning just refers to a change, for example a chemist might say: "hydrogen is evolved when X is mixed with Y". I suppose this would be transitive.
To give an example of both types in one sentence here is a (bad) example: "As they evolved from fish the vertebrates evolved legs."
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