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263. In A.D. 391, resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, later generations lost all but the Iliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides.

(A) resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria,

(B) the destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and

(C) because of the result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,

(D) as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,（D）

(E) Alexandria’s largest library of the ancient world was destroyed, and the result was

D, the best choice, uses the idiomatic as a result of and conveys information unambiguously. In A, the phrase that begins resulting from cannot properly modify later generations. The word order of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria generates ambiguity: one possible reading is that the ancient world was located at Alexandria. Choice B is incorrect. Although an “-ing” verb such as destroying can sometimes act as a noun, in this case the usage is strained. Again, at Alexandria is ambiguous (as in choice A). Choice B also uses resulted ungrammatically and produces a run-on sentence (In A.D. 391, the destroying... resulted and later generations lost). In C, the phrase because of the result of is unidiomatic as well as redundant. The structure of E illogically suggests that there was more than one largest library of the ancient world and that only Alexandria’s was destroyed. Furthermore, the result was should instead be the result was that.

我觉得D也有问题呀，它的同位语可能是修饰ALXANDRIA的呀，如果可能的话，不就也就造成句意模糊了，虽然我知道ETS偏爱同位修饰。谢谢

我是从意思上看，如果Alexandria放在the largest 后也可说得通，那就产生了歧义，就会有另一种理解，但这样明显不合逻辑。

斑竹能不能讲一下Ａ，我看完题目就认为当时世界上最大的图书馆就在Ａlexandria(我历史知识比较贫乏，人也比较单纯）而且刘振明里面有讲无依附结构，Ｒesulting from 算不算啊，不能修饰主语later generations，这样理解对不对？ＯＧ　Ａ的解释能帮我rephraze一下吗？汗．．．．．．

The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.

按照这位的解释,那此题的介词短语也不用前置了,因为很明显the great eruption of Vesuvius 是不可能 in two letters的.

不过也许同位语的修饰有所不同,好好研究下

Choice B also uses resulted ungrammatically and produces a run-on sentence (In A.D. 391, the destroying... resulted and later generations lost).

这句什么意思？是不是说and前要加“，”？

原来这讨论在这里啊!

同位语是不是应该修饰前面的中心词? 我怎么感觉 the largest of the ancient world有修饰destruction的嫌疑,不应该说修饰后面的枝枝叶叶吧?