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399.                  In spite of federal subsidizing of public transportation systems massively and major local efforts to persuade the public to use public transportation, mass transit has been steadily losing patronage to the private automobile for the past thirty years. 

(A) In spite of federal subsidizing of public transportation systems massively and major local efforts to persuade

(B) In spite of massive federal subsidizing of public transportation systems and major efforts locally at persuading

(C) Despite massive federal subsidies to public transportation systems and the making of major efforts locally to persuade

(D) Despite massive federal subsidies to public transportation systems and major local efforts to persuade

(E) Despite massive federal subsidies to public transportation systems and making major local efforts at persuading

答案是D, 为什么A不对？ 我觉得D的 Despite 后面一般情况跟的是简单名词结构

请教！！谢谢

Despite massive federal subsidies to public transportation systems and major local efforts to persuade the public to use public transportation

上面是D选项，可以看到D也不平行啊?? to public transportation systems  和后面的to persuade the public to use public transportation 根本就是两回事哦。前面是介词短语，后面是不定式啊。

请牛牛解答。

想问问大家

despite=in spite of??

都是后面跟名词 都是表示尽管的意思 是吗？？

despite与in spite of含义一样（用于简单的系表结构），但是前者相比更简洁

名词或名词性短语比复杂的句子或动名词结构更简洁