og11-verbal-70，没问过的

70．  Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap，the city's mayor, proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups．

(A)  proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize

(B)  proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and for subsidizing

(C)  proposed to reduce，by nearly 17 percent，the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize

(D)  has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city’s major cultural institutions．and to subsidize

(E)  was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions and for the subsidization

请问C为何不能理解为，subsidize是与reduce并列？

to reduce和to subsidize不可以平行的，意思变了，to这里有点表目的的意思，这个propose去减少的目的是为了两个：to maintain和to subsidize