白勇 178页第51题

The commission acknowledged that no amount of money or staff members can ensure the safety of people who live in the vicinity of a nuclear plant, but it approved the installation because it believed that all reasonable precaution had been taken.

(A) no amount of money or staff members

(B) neither vast ammounts of money nor staff members

(C) neither vast amounts of money nor numbers of staff members

(D) neither vast amounts of money nor a large staff

答案是选择D

但是他的解释我不是很理解，他说B,C不对是因为vast amounts of money 强调整体概念，staff memebers 强调个体概念，造成平行结构不对等。那莫非D的vast amounts of money 和 a large staff就对等了？ a large staff可以表示vast amounts of staff么？

a large staff不懂，没看到过，帮顶，等待正确解释

我想主要是amount的問題吧

(B) neither vast ammounts of money nor staff members

vast amounts不僅修飾到money也修飾到staff member

然而,amounts只能用在不可數的名詞上,所以B錯

(C) neither vast amounts of money nor numbers of staff members

(D)         vast amounts of money     a large staff

C跟D做比較,D比較對稱,而且感覺也比較簡潔

amount of + 不可数n