纠结一下second还是secondly

quellekind · 发表于 2009-11-18 06:42:13

请教一道语法题：

1. A recent New York Times editorial criticized the city’s election board for, first of all, failing to replace outmoded voting machines prone to breakdowns, and secondarily, for their failure to investigate allegations of corruption involving board members.

(A) secondarily, for their failure to

(B) secondly, for their failure to

(C) secondly, that they failed and did not

(D) second, that they failed to（E）

(E) second, for failing to

答案是E，但是second不是形容词吗，这里看着应该放一个副词与first of all 对应啊，确实按照堆成来说for failing to没有问题，但是我比较纠结为什么是second，不是secondly

非常感谢

云深无迹 · 发表于 2009-11-18 07:56:07

习惯上的对应问题
一般我们用first对应second
而firstly多与sencondly相配

quellekind · 发表于 2009-11-19 04:13:01

非常感谢，
估计我都是让作文高的，first of all，secondly，

sayysong · 发表于 2009-11-19 12:24:42

现在都很少用到firstly, secondly, thirdly了，old-fashioned，感觉就跟中文中的“之乎者也”差不多了。
普遍多用first, second, third。

jeccika1105 · 发表于 2009-11-23 11:44:03

(B) secondly, for their failure to 跟 first of all, failing to。。。。不对称。

E 是唯一 "for failing to " 跟主句对称的选项。

纠结一下second还是secondly

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