Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better poet than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed by his success.
138. Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better poet than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed by his success.
(A) Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better
poet than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed
by his success.
(B) Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning was considered among her
contemporaries as a better poet than her husband, she was later
overshadowed by his success.
(C) Later overshadowed by the success of her husband, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning’s poetry had been considered among her contemporaries to be
better than that of her husband.
(D) Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s success was later overshadowed
by that of her husband, among her contemporaries she was considered the
better poet.
(E) Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry was considered among her
contemporaries as better than her husband, but her success was later
overshadowed by his.
贴下og的解释:
The sentence misuses the locution the better poet. It is acceptable to say a better
poet than but not the better poet than. If you have already mentioned two poets X
and Y, and you want to say that X is better than Y, you can either say X is a better
poet than Y, or simply, X is the better poet.
A This version of the sentence misuses the idiom the better poet, most likely
confusing it with the idiom a better poet than.
B [W]as considered among her contemporaries as is awkward and
unnecessarily creates a potential misreading (she was considered to be
among her contemporaries).
C The subject here is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry, not Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, so the antecedent of her in her husband could comically
be taken to be Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry. Furthermore, the tense
of had been considered pairs oddly with Later overshadowed. Each seems to
be in reaction to some particular time T—later than T and earlier than T, but
when T was or its significance is never indicated.
D Correct. This version avoids the problems of the other versions.
E This sentence comically compares Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry to
her husband.