OG13里第6题求助！

LZ，我觉得有时候意思真的是只可意会，不可言传。。。想了半天该怎么用中文表达，你看看下面的你理解不？
surpassed only by heart disease and cancer：仅仅被心脏病和癌症超越
only surpassed by heart disease and cancer：仅仅被超越（超越的对象包括心脏病和癌症：可能还有其它超越的对象）

我也觉得好难翻译 有时候只是细微的差别。。。谢谢亲啦！

【這是從manhattan裏面copy出來的題目，考點一樣的】
RIGHT:   Her performance is exceeded ONLY by theirs, (modifies by theirs)
WRONG:  Her performance is ONLY exceeded by theirs, (technically modifies exceeded)
Note: ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. In both speech
and writing, we often place ONLY before the verb, but this placement is generally wrong,
according to the GMAT, since we rarely mean that the verb is the only action ever performed
by the subject.

根據manhattan的意思，上面WRONG的句子強調的是her performance唯一地產生了exceed這個動作，這樣是與題目的原意矛盾的。
我覺得不用太糾結它到底要怎麼翻譯，其實當你讀完句子以後，心裡應該對only要強調的側重點有所把握【這裡可以理解為only的作用是用來強調句子中的某些成份的，作者企圖強調什麽內容，only就放在什麽內容之前】。然後就根據only修飾的原則（ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. ），把only放在你認為意思上合理的那個成份前面就ok啦。

還有一個小技巧，我自己總結出來的，不過只是經過非常少量的樣本驗證，不知道是否非常非常適用【希望看到的童鞋積極地批判俺的這個idea!!><】
要判斷only的位置，先把句子讀完以後，按照自己的理解把中文翻譯出來，看翻譯的時候把“只有/只是”放在哪些內容的前面。換成英文句子的時候，only就是放在那些內容的前面。

希望幫到你啦^^

【這是從manhattan裏面copy出來的題目，考點一樣的】
RIGHT:   Her performance is exceeded ONLY by theirs, (modifies by theirs)
WRONG:  Her performance is ONLY exceeded by theirs, (technically modifies exceeded)
Note: ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. In both speech
and writing, we often place ONLY before the verb, but this placement is generally wrong,
according to the GMAT, since we rarely mean that the verb is the only action ever performed
by the subject.

根據manhattan的意思，上面WRONG的句子強調的是her performance唯一地產生了exceed這個動作，這樣是與題目的原意矛盾的。
我覺得不用太糾結它到底要怎麼翻譯，其實當你讀完句子以後，心裡應該對only要強調的側重點有所把握【這裡可以理解為only的作用是用來強調句子中的某些成份的，作者企圖強調什麽內容，only就放在什麽內容之前】。然後就根據only修飾的原則（ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. ），把only放在你認為意思上合理的那個成份前面就ok啦。

還有一個小技巧，我自己總結出來的，不過只是經過非常少量的樣本驗證，不知道是否非常非常適用【希望看到的童鞋積極地批判俺的這個idea!!><】
要判斷only的位置，先把句子讀完以後，按照自己的理解把中文翻譯出來，看翻譯的時候把“只有/只是”放在哪些內容的前面。換成英文句子的時候，only就是放在那些內容的前面。

希望幫到你啦^^

I thought most of time "（ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. ）" is correct.

However , there is exception:  the sentence from Prep.
213. (GWD-3-Q34)Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike those in department stores, dovery little impulse shopping; someone who comes in for a basketball will leavewith a basketball only and not buy a pair of skis and a boomerang as well.  

I thought most of time "（ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. ）" is correct.

However , there is exception:  the sentence from Prep.
213. (GWD-3-Q34)Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike those in department stores, dovery little impulse shopping; someone who comes in for a basketball will leavewith a basketball only and not buy a pair of skis and a boomerang as well.  

謝謝ls分享^^！
同意"（ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. ）" 僅是一般性的原則。
突然萌生了一個想法：如果某個選項要違背這個原則的話，在不會引起歧義也不改變句子意思的前提下，這個違背原則導致的改變還有其他很重要的作用。

比如ls所分享的句子，only被放在句末會不會是因為only要跟as well平行呢，我的意思是structurally parallel...
哈哈，有趣~~