[讨论] 一道难题

The artist Renoir’s last word was “flowers,” spoken as they arranged a bouquet of roses just picked from his garden in a vase on his bedroom windowsill.

d

是说反对C吗？

我分析C句子是：

补全：（which is ) spoken as a bouquet of roses just picked from his garden was being arranged

C。as a bouquet of roses just picked from his garden was being arranged

主要是was being arranged不爽， open to discuss...

i would preper C

in D,the arrangement of a bouquet of roses seems  awkward to me

C有4点不好:

(1)as表示当...时候，一般用在口语中。

（2）being

(3)被动语态。

（4）分词后跟从句

所以，我还是支持D

agree first 3 points but the fouth one:

as i said earlier, if you 补全：（which is ) spoken as a bouquet of roses just picked from his garden was being arranged,

you'll get a sentence rather than a 分词.

open to discuss

I would go with the sentence you've completed above. However, my answer is C.

The passage here is trying to decribe the moment when Renoir said the word.

"as" means "when".         We can simplify  C to : when a bouquet of roses was being arranged in a vase

But D did not reflect this original meaning. Another flaw of D is that when you link it with the rest, it just can not complete the sentence.

Henry