162. Concerned at the increase in accident fatalities, Tennessee adopted a child-passenger protection law requiring the parents of children under four years of age to be restrained in a child safety seat.
(A) the parents of children under four years of age to be restrained in a child safety seat
(B) the restraint of parents of children under four years of age in a child safety seat
(C) that parents restrain children under four years of age in a child safety seat
(D) that children be restrained under four years of age in a child safety seat by their parents
(E) children to be restrained under four years of age by their parents in a child safety seat
This question requires the correct placement of sentence parts to achieve accurate meaning and to avoid awkwardness. Choice C most accurately and efficiently expresses the meaning of the Tennessee child-passenger protection law. Choices A and B absurdly indicate that it is the parents, not the children, who are to be restrained. Choices D and E misplace the phrase under four years of age so the phrase dangles and seems to modify restrained rather than children. In addition, E misplaces the phrase in a child safely seat to create the idea that the parents are in a child safety seat.
问题有二:
1、C中的restrain不是“限制、抑制”的意思吧,如果是的话,C句岂不是说“父母限制4岁以下的儿童做安全座椅?”查了字典,没有找到合适的意思呀!
re‧strain
[transitive]
1 to stop someone from doing something, often by using physical force
restrain somebody from doing something
I had to restrain her from running out into the street.
He had to be restrained from using violence.
2 to control your own emotions or behaviour:
Renwick restrained a feeling of annoyance.
restrain yourself (from doing something)
She could barely restrain herself from hitting him.
3 to control or limit something that is increasing too much:
Price rises should restrain consumer spending.
2、OG解释:Choices D and E misplace the phrase under four years of age so the phrase dangles and seems to modify restrained rather than children.但是,under four years of age 修饰restrained说不通啊,翻译过来不是成了“四岁以下的限制”?什么叫“四岁以下的限制”啊?
请指点!感谢!!