OG：Some anthropologists believe...

idcannotbefound · 发表于 2022-9-19 18:59:46

Some anthropologists believe that the genetic homogeneity evident in the world's people is the result of a "population bottleneck"—at some time in the past our ancestors suffered an event, greatly reducing their numbers and thus our genetic variation.

(A) at some time in the past our ancestors suffered an event, greatly reducing their numbers
(B) that at some time in the past our ancestors suffered an event that greatly reduced their numbers
(C) that some time in the past our ancestors suffered an event so that their numbers were greatly reduced,
(D) some time in the past our ancestors suffered an event from which their numbers were greatly reduced
(E) some time in the past, that our ancestors suffered an event so as to reduce their numbers greatly,

答案是b

a和b好难选，有人说a中reducing的逻辑主语错了，他们把reducing作为伴随状语，认为ancestors无法发出reducing their numbers的行为。
请问reducing不能当作结果状语吗？让ancestors suffered an event这件事情成为reducing的逻辑主语。

idcannotbefound · 发表于 2022-9-20 16:37:04

没有人吗

idcannotbefound · 发表于 2022-9-21 03:23:53

求求了

Qingmangmiao · 发表于 2022-9-22 02:56:43

hi，

哈哈哈哈哈我也选错了。

但是我现在有点想法可以探讨。我觉得是可以如你所说，做结果状语。

但是前面是suffer an event( 这个event是一个普通的没有任何限定的event），因为遭遇了一个没有任何限定的事件，所以人类数量减少。这里我觉得event需要一个限定词，比如：前所未有的会灭绝人类的事件，如果加上了，那么因果关系就特别合理。

B选项，如果把造成人类数量减少作为an event的限定词，也很合理，就是人类遭遇了这样一个会减少人类数量的event。

我是被B选项的that影响了，我觉得他不是believe的宾语，而是单独对believe的从句进行解释，这个that我觉得有点奇怪。也希望大神可以解惑。

Qingmangmiao · 发表于 2022-9-22 03:15:35

Qingmangmiao 发表于 18分钟前

that这个我琢磨了一下，可以理解。

这句话是anthologies 发表的观点，然后他们对观点做了一个解释，那么两个内容都在believe的范畴。

主要还是太subtle，不应该根据这个来排除。

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