According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, like that of earlier generations.
According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, like that of earlier generations.
个人看法,仅供参考。that/those可以用于比较中进行名词的替换(new copy) 如:The car in the corner looks cooler than that beside the road. (that=car, 表示new copy, 就是说第一个car 和第二个car是不同的)
如果上面理解了,那么看这题 According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, like that of earlier generations. 如果用that,即使that可以指代goal;表达的意思就是 a goal of a majority of young adults= A,a goal of earlier generations=B,A和B是不同的只是like而已。
但是,反观答案,it 的指代和that就有本质的区别了,前后的goal不是像而是一样,那么句子想表达什么呢,那就看看事态 is still 和 was, 你就明白了。
that在这里可以指代goal 则句子变为:…is still a goal of a majority of young adults, like the goal of earlier generations 只是说明这两个goal像 而原句是as it was of,即 as owning and living was a goal of ealier generations 比较的是owning and living在现在是goal和在过去也是goal的事实,而不是两个goal本身 --------------------------------------- 个人理解,open to discuss~