OG6解释不清楚再指点一下to mariezhu

6.     In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species, dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the organism’s trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it.

(A) trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it

(B) trying that it metabolize, or render harmless, the. chemical irritant

(C) attempt to try to metabolize, or render harmless, such a chemical irritant

(D) attempt to try and metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritating it（E）

(E) attempt to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant

Although an “-ing” verb such as trying can sometimes be used as a noun, the phrase the organism’s trying to metabolize in A is unidiomatic because trying is used as the object of organism’s. In B, trying that it metabolize is ungrammatical. The noun attempt could follow organism’s; also, it would parallel the noun enzymes, and parallelism is needed here because the sentence uses the linking verb are to equate enzymes and attempt. In C and D, however, attempt to try is redundant. Choice E, which says attempt to metabolize, is best. The phrase the chemical irritant is also the most concise and precise conclusion for the sentence because it clearly refers to the dioxin mentioned earlier.

看了前人的讨论还是不能太明白， 请大家解释一下红色字的意思， trying  is used as the object of organism's 实在是不明白，这里object是宾语的意思吗？我觉得organism's分明是trying 的定语吗？

伤脑筋！

GG切莫钻牛角尖，这道题很好理解，语法点主要是意思重复 ATTEMPT=TRY，据此去掉 C & D

A&B中的trying确实做宾语 object : a noun or noun equivalent (as a pronoun, gerund, or clause) denoting the goal or result of the action of a verb

trying这样做名词很怪异，因为有现成的名词attempt在

Chemical that is irritating it也很awkward,有更简洁的说法

另：这段解释不是前人的讨论，而是ETS出的官方解释，请仔细研读，一定对提高水平大有帮助。。

mm对不起,好几天没看贴，以为它沉了呢！

谢谢你的回帖！

为什么是宾语能解释一下吗？

这里并没有什么action 施加在trying上呀！

这句话是说dioxin导致了enzyme的产生，这种enzyme是organism的trying去.....因此我不明白为什么og说trying 是organism的宾语

这里organism'trying，只是一个普通的所有格形式呀，宾语从何说起呀？

这个object是指“对象”的意思。ETS的意思是：把trying作为organism’s 所有，是unidiomatic，虽然trying是名词性的。后面有更好的attempt。就这个意思。