LZM E11-89

Unlike most warbler species, the male and female blue-winged warbler are very difficult to tell apart.
(A) Unlike most warbler species, the male and female blue-winged warbler are very difficult to tell apart.
(B) Unlike most warbler species, the gender of the blue-winged warbler is very difficult to distinguish.
(C) Unlike those in most warbler species, the male and female blue-winged warblers are very difficult to distinguish.
(D) It is very difficult, unlike in most warbler species, to tell the male and female blue-winged warbler apart.
(E) Blue-winged warblers are unlike most species of warbler in that it is very difficult to tell the male and female apart.

答案E

我选C，对于C刘政民的分析是：those 指代 the male and female blue winged warble, 不能仅仅指代 the male and female，因为主句的主语不是 the male and female in the blue-winged warbles 这种结构。 （到这里我都同意）  而当把 those 指代的内容代入 unlike 短语中，unlike 短语将不知所云。 （这个我不同意）我觉得代进去完全正确：

这个不是很正常嘛！还对称！倒是答案E有问题：

(E) Blue-winged warblers are unlike most species of warbler in that it is very difficult to tell the male and female apart.

这里面的warblers和species不对称！Species of warbler 的侧重当然是 species，换种写法就是 warbler species；A of B 的侧重是A!!!!!!

我有错吗？请各位诊断。

带进去对称到对称就是逻辑意思上讲不通了， 楼主翻译翻译那个句子就明白了。

至于E，说的是blue-winged warblers 跟大多数品种的warbler不同，勉强算对称， species of warbler的中心语是species还是warbler要结合句子的意思看。但这个句子特怪，还弄个in that it is出来，不懂不懂。

RE楼上，

我翻译了，还是不明白，请指教

A of B 的中心语为什么还分场合有所不同？为什么？能不能给个例子？

谢谢。