364. In A.D. 391, resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, later generations lost all but the Iliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides. (A) resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, (B) the destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and (C) because of the result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world, (D) as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world, (E) Alexandria’s largest library of the ancient world was destroyed, and the result was
答案是D,可是我觉得D也有一个很大的问题,the largest of the ancient world是否有指代Alexandria的嫌疑?相比较而言好像还是E更加好一些把?
E之所以不对,OG说的很清楚。 The structure of E illogically suggests that there was more than one largest library of the ancient world and that only Alexandria’s was destroyed. Furthermore, the result was should instead be the result was that.
D中不是没有这个嫌疑,但对于: N1介词N2,同位语 的结构,同位语指代N1是再正常不过的事情。 而且,the largest of the ancient world是省略结构,补全了应该是 the largest library of the ancient world
以下是引用gemj在2003-11-27 15:55:00的发言: E之所以不对,OG说的很清楚。 The structure of E illogically suggests that there was more than one largest library of the ancient world and that only Alexandria’s was destroyed. Furthermore, the result was should instead be the result was that.
D中不是没有这个嫌疑,但对于: N1介词N2,同位语 的结构,同位语指代N1是再正常不过的事情。 而且,the largest of the ancient world是省略结构,补全了应该是 the largest library of the ancient world