刚刚总结完比较,就看到MM的贴子,试试看能否解释清楚MM的问题吧,不清楚可别拿砖头杂我,呵呵!
关于比较结构中代词和谓语的省略与补出,关键还是在于是否补出或省略会产生歧义或逻辑错误,这有点泛泛而谈,但确实这个就是唯一依据。再来看看你的例子:
疑问: 1. 为什么第1,2题的比较都做出了相应的补出. 但OG的187却没有补出?
1. In LACE w:st="on">JapanLACE> elderly people are treated with far greater respect than they are in most Western countries.
这里补出they are是因为如果不补就会产生介词短语和介词短语比较的歧义,即with far greater respect 和in most Western countries
2. Once positioned in space, the Hubble Space Telescope will capture light from source twenty times fainter than those that can be detected by ground-based instruments
我记得题目应该是sources吧,如果不补那么比较的到底是Hubble Spcace Telescope, light还是sources就不清楚了。
OG187. In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, four times as many Americans were killed as would later be killed on the beaches of LACE w:st="on">NormandyLACE> during D-Day.
(A) Americans were killed as
(B) Americans were killed than
(C) Americans were killed than those who
(D) more Americans were killed as there (A)
(E) more Americans were killed as those who
而这一句因为as之前的Americans were kill只是简单的主谓结构,不补出也没有歧义。关于应该补those还是they我认为在这里是they,因为这是同一对象在不同时间的比较,而且Americans是泛指,当然如果是特指或限定了的情况,就应该用those指代。
2. 如果是主语相同可以省略的话,那么第1题又为什么不省,而补出they are? 这样看起来似乎第1题和OG187矛盾?
省略不只是看主语是否相同的,从上面的例子可以就看出。我的总结是一般来说(不是绝对的),比较词as/than等之前是完整的主谓宾(状语、表语、补语),为了清晰的唯一的确定是主语还是宾语或是状语的比较,比较词后的代词和谓语就应该补出。当然如果可以通过动词,逻辑等方式确定唯一性,也可以不补,如OG46。
动词的补出. 例:
疑问: 为什么OG251than 后省略了they were ,而第2,3题却相应补出了代词和动词?
OG251. The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's. .
(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were
(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
(E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than
个人认为这不是省略they were而是比较状语now。。。when
2. Florida will gain another quarter-million jobs this year alone, many of them in such high-paying fields as electronics and banking, making the state’s economy far more diversified than it was ten years ago.
3. The use of chemical pesticides in this country is as extensive as it was ten years ago, if not more so.
2,3补出的原因同上。
关于这个专题,NN薰衣紫草,有过一个不错的总结,还有就是cwang的比较的庖丁解牛,都是非常N的贴子,你可以去搜搜看! ![](/static/legacy-emoticon/Dvbbs/em01.gif) ![](/static/legacy-emoticon/Dvbbs/em07.gif) |