Today, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the same amount of acreage produces double the apples that it has in 1910.
(A) double the apples that it has
(B) twice as many apples as it did
(C) as much as twice the apples it has
(D) two times as many apples as there were
(E) a doubling of the apples that it did
谢谢哈多谢前辈指点,不知前辈可否解释下这句OG上这句话?“The phrase double the apples is not very exact but it could be understood to mean twice as many or as many as” 是在看不懂歧义在哪里?
hupan 发表于 2014-1-18 18:21
谢谢哈多谢前辈指点,不知前辈可否解释下这句OG上这句话?“The phrase double the apples is not very ...
我水平有限试着回答一下;
我认为这应该和double的词性变换有关,其实所有的岐义都不外乎是因为它有不同的词性解释,或者有不止一种语法功能的解释,这里double 也是这样,
它有可能被后边的定语从句修饰而出现as many as 的解释,
也有一种可能是它在定语从句的修饰之外,而出现twice as many的解释。
归根到底这是由于double的词性造成的,当它是形容词的时候后边的定语从句应该修饰它+先行词。