请教一道语法题

littlesharon · 发表于 2008-9-3 20:55:00

For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa,animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment,a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears.

(A)a method to protect

(B)as a method protection

(C)protecting

(D)as a protection of

(E)to protect

需要解释。

白勇解释得不太明白，觉得有点牵强。

Zeldaw · 发表于 2008-9-3 21:10:00

Choice C is best because the participle protecting begins a phrase that explains what the shields did. Choices A and B awkwardly use the singular word method to refer to items of military equipment rather than to the use of such items. Also, a method of protecting would be more idiomatic than a method to protect in A or a
method protecting in B. In B and D, as is incorrect; also, a protection in D has no noun for which it can logically substitute. Choice E is incomplete; used to protect would have been acceptable.

aeoluseros · 发表于 2008-9-3 21:28:00

以下是引用littlesharon在2008-9-3 20:55:00的发言：

For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa,animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears.

(A)a method to protect

同位语a method无法解释前面的items，单复数也不一致

(B)as a method protection

这个...打字错误吧？应该是protecting。a method of/for doing sth.比a method to do sth.更加的idiomatic。

如果as是连词，as后面要接句子，所以as是介词，表示“作为”。其所修饰的items是复数，而a method是单数，而且如果做介词，as前面的逗号不用加。总之这里as的用法很错很错...

(C)protecting

做伴随状语，逻辑主语是animal-hide shields，合理。

(D)as a protection of

protection无所概括...as的用法错误同B。

(E)to protect

不定式状语表示目的，逻辑主语还是animal-hide shields，但是"animal-hide shields为了保护“逻辑上并不通，应该说animal-hide shields被使用的目的是保护...所以应该加上used to protect.

需要解释。

白勇解释得不太明白，觉得有点牵强。

或许有不对的地方，望NN们指出

请教一道语法题

请教一道语法题

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