manhattan中的一个句子 so as to 求解

The following is a thread that I have referred to and recommended so many times...Be sure to check it out.
http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/so-that-such-that-so-as-to-t13833.html

From Ron:

“so as to” is an interesting construction.  i don't think that gmac likes it very much -- i've never seen it in an officially correct answer -- but i think the main distinction is that it's used to describe indirect intentions.
for instance, the example above isn't great because you are calling this person directly to invite him, so you should use one of the earlier two versions.

on the other hand, consider the following: Joe bought a gym membership so as to become more attractive to women.
this is what i mean by indirect intention.  obviously, the act of buying a gym membership itself is not going to make joe instantly more attractive to women (women do not swoon over a man's gym membership card).  instead, there are plenty of implied intermediate steps between “by a gym membership” and “be more attractive”; the use of “so as to” implies that there are such intermediate steps in the process.

杀G为啥会想家？你不是第一次考了么？

谢谢babybearmm~~Ron真是神级人物，我从来都不知道so as to是表示indirect intention的~
这句话很受用啊“in general, you don't use so ADJ as to VERB unless the VERB describes some sort of state/condition. i.e., if the verb is an action verb, this construction generally isn't used.”

Prep2008 Q174
Often major economic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at first from ordinary fluctuations in the financial markets.

A.so gradual as to be indistinguishable

B.so gradual so that they can be indistinguishable

C.so gradual that they are unable to be distinguished

D.gradual enough not to be distinguishable(A)

E.gradual enough so that one cannot distinguish them

我原来还觉得A不大好，现在看，真是很好了~~~



不过Ron说这个不对”I study so hard that I can get a good grade. “——it probably doesn't make sense, unless getting a good grade is presented as some sort of extreme, unusual achievement.
这样说是不是太严格了？我觉得我们平时碰到的so...that没这么严格的区分，还是很make sense的。

mm你领悟力太赞了~
我后来看到那道"so gradual as to be indistinguishable"时，才发现Ron的解释多么透彻，对那道题的解释基本不能再精妙了~

后面Ron的解释也是对的，这个真的是体现了the appreciation of the intricacies of the English language.
咱non-native speakers体会不到....Ron毕竟做过多年的professional journal editor
这么说吧，如果找个native speaker来读这句话，他/她会这么读：
I study soooooooo harrrd tha Ican getta gugrade.
希望我用以上文字表达清楚了哈，所以就是Ron说的extreme的意思

确实如你说的，很严格，Ron自己也说这个贴子的很多问题，他以前也没思考过，而且大概GMAT不会考，除非很高分段的题目，完全考对verbal的感悟。

我还是有一些不理解：

Faced with the recurrence of natural disasters, such as floods and wildfires, many state govern-
ments have imposed significant taxes on their citizens so as to raise funds in advance of the next
calamity.

这里的so as to 不能理解成indirect intention 吗？

39. In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine annulled so as to marry Anne Boleyn.
(A) so as to marry
(B) and so could be married to
(C) to be married to
(D) so that he could marry
(E) in order that he would marry

so as to 不能理解成间接想娶AB？