大全510

1.        More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.

(A) to greater economic development and investing

(B) to greater development economically and investing

(C) of greater economic development and invest

(D) of greater development economically and invest（A）

(E) for greater economic development and the investment of

a means to 这种说法可以吗？

可以.没见过的都可能是对的.我也总犯这样的错误.

切记!.

这里stressing得有一个平行得对应

只能在AB里选

A比B更好些

to gonghao,

why A better than B?

economic? economically?

明白了，一个是adj. 一个是adv.

呵呵，看花了眼。

1，OG11版的解释说as a means to是idiom，而as a means of不是正确的idiom。但是我查了LDOCE4和Collins2006，发现恰好相反：as a means to sth的搭配几乎没有，as a means to do sth倒是有（不定式表目的）；而后者as a means of 的例子实在太多了，art as a means of expression, use music as a means of communicating with people...；

2，后来又仔细查了查，终于发现只有一个a means to an end的固定搭配，意思是 something that you do only to achieve a result, not because you want to do it or because it is important；例句是For Geoff, the job was simply a means to an end. 其他再也没有发现；

3，（补充）这道大全510其实也是OG11版的第60题，但是在OG10版中没有，所以讨论的人很少。我搜索了半天才发现这个帖子。

请高手指点！

我也有同样的疑问~~~~~~waiting.....

they have different meanings~~~~~

我觉得这里不是在考察固定搭配的问题，as a means of作为一个固定搭配是肯定没错的，但是它表示的是“作为......的方法”，后面跟的应该是能够表达动作含义的名词或动名词，就像慕萧峰GG举的例子中的expression和communicating with people一样。而本题中，of后面跟的是greater economic development，译成“作为更快的经济增长的方法”就不妥了，所以这里用to表示的是达到某种目的的手段和方法，就像习语a means to an end想要表达的那样。arts是被当成是获得更快经济增长的手段。因此，这里应该使用to而不是of。

嘿嘿，一点拙见，说错的话不要打我哦。

economic and economical have different meaning,

but both adv. forms are economically