请参考一下OG258. 里面有讲到分词和定语的区别. 258. The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London. (A) that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning (B) that the elephant, giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, had been earning (C) that there was an elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, and it earned (D) the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and was earning (E) the elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and that it earned that 引导的整个名词从句(整体上是个名词) as a humorous example of income maldistribution. Choice A, the best answer, uses the idiomatic construction noted... that and clearly focuses on the salient information-- a comparison of annual earnings. In B, the structure of noted... that the elephant, giving rides ..., had been earning falsely implies that the reader already knows about the elephant--that is, that the existence of this particular elephant is not new information. Also, the past perfect had been improperly places the elephant's earning in the past, prior to Wootton's; consistent verb tense is needed to show that the actions are simultaneous. Choice C may be faulted for distortion of meaning and diminished clarity because it suggests that the point of Wootton's example was the elephant's very existence (句子意思改变了); comparative earnings are presented (after and) as incidental detail(重要的部分变成了附属点)Choice D is awkward and inexact; the whole circumstance that Wootton "noted" is best expressed in a clause that begins with that(时态也不对) . Choice E does not use the idiomatic construction noted that x; therefore, and that it earned has no parallel construction to which it can be joined. 本题中限定性定于(that)从句是必要的,限制说明这个大象,就像解释中的一样,给了读者一个新的信息;非限定定语(+ing)是一个现象,并不是指那只大象,同时要注意时态的呼应!!!!(整体与局部,新旧之分) note To make mention of; remark: 说起…;谈到: noted the lateness of their arrival. 谈到他们的迟到的事 回到本到题, 我觉得解题的关键不在这里. |