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玄子

Though the artifacts of pre-Columbian civilization created a stir from the very first European contacts with
the New World in the sixteenth century, it was not until the latter half of the nineteenth century that
Western designers, artists, and crafters were inspired to imitate them.
A. it was not until the latter half of the nineteenth century that Western designers, artists, and crafters
were inspired to imitate them
B. they did not inspire imitations of Western designers, artists, and crafters until it was the latter half of
the nineteenth century
C. not until the latter half of the nineteenth century was it that they have inspired Western designers,
artists, and crafters to imitation
D. until the latter half of the nineteenth century Western designers, artists, and crafters have not been
inspired to imitate
E. they were not inspirations of Western designers, artists, and crafters imitations until the latter half of
the nineteenth century

E选项The sentence is wordy, and it requires the possessive form of designers, artists, and crafters.什么意思？


还有网上答案：在GMAT中经常出现，定义就是“谁”是“谁”。they were not inspirations，不管是肯定还是否定，逻辑上把“他们”定义为 “inspirations”
为什么不能说they were not inspirations

lululuna

原句是被动句Western designers, artists, and crafters were inspired to imitate them
最重要的步骤：考虑动词和动作发出者
不要用 主动优于被动 打翻一船

这个句子里有两个动词 inspire 和 imitate


谁imitate? Western designers, artists, and crafters（动作发出者）
imitate什么？ artifacts of pre-Columbian civilization （动作受体）


谁inspire?  原文没说（那就是没有发出者，至少原句没交代）
inpire谁/什么？ Western designers, artists, and crafters（动作受体）


在GMAT中，被动句正确的形态就是：动作没有明确的发出者，只强调受体
BCE选项把 they= rtifacts of pre-Columbian civilization 作为 inspire动作的发出者，改变了句子的意思，把不是它做的动作强加给它，所以都错


而且，根据句意，artifacts（工艺品）也无法主动去发出inspire的动作...artifacts（实意名词）be inspiration(抽象名词）--参见manhattan 关于Linking verb的讲解


不建议用XDF所谓的动词 优于 名词/ 主动 优于 被动来考虑，语义为王。


以上~

玄子

而且C时态不对

玄子

nancyyen 发表于 2015-10-17 12:08
这个似乎是GMAT强调的动词效果会好于名词。Western designers, artists, and crafters were inspired 要好 ...

谢谢，E选项明白了，

但是C选项不懂：C不对，因为句意强调的是这些个artifact，因此做that从句后的主语动词要好过被动
我的理解是：在A里them指代artifact，是做宾语，C里的they指代artifact是做主语？
artifact怎么做主语动词了？怎么表示被动的？

我是觉得to imitation不对否掉C的

nancyyen

这个似乎是GMAT强调的动词效果会好于名词。Western designers, artists, and crafters were inspired 要好过 inspirations of Western designers, artists, and crafters imitations ‘s。何况E答案没有加S。 A是英语常用的一个表达句子（GMAT有时候会倒装出现，但是本题C不对，因为句意强调的是这些个artifact，因此做that从句后的主语动词要好过被动），和“so that”一样出现，就是高度疑似正确答案 （类似还有个什么题说某个女记者直到水门事件之后才被大家所知也是这个结构）。