【求问】OG18 SC796

sherryeveryday

OG18 SC.796: Among the Tsonga, a Bantu-Speaking group of tribes in southeastern Africa, dance teams represent their own chief at the court of each other, providing entertainment in return for food, drink, and lodging.


A.  the court of each other, providing entertainment in return for
B.  the court of another and provide entertainment in return for
C. the cour of the other, so as to provide entertainment as a return on
D. each other's court, entertainment being provided in return for
E. another's court and provide entertainment as a return on

这道题答案选B。

想知道A和B的主要区别是什么呢？答案说A项是‘each other’使用错误，但我认为用A项说法'大家互相用提供娱乐的方式交换食物'也是可行的呀，所以不知道是什么地方理解错了

希望有大神指点~~~~感激不尽！

starry0328

Fiona09 发表于 2017-8-3 11:17
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不好意思，请问有人知道这个网站怎么打开吗？很想看看，但是直接点是404，挂梯子也404，谢谢

林佳音

Fiona09 发表于 2017-8-3 11:17
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Mark一下！               

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脑洞君kary 发表于 2018-9-9 16:09
看了herl的解释还是不懂，自己理了一下思路，非NN，希望大神来拍砖。[自己的理解]→由单复数看指代：each o ...

Mark一下！               

jeffisid

herl 的解释我看不太懂。google了很多英文解释后终于把这道我很久很久都没有完全理解的题读懂了。分享下我的总结。

A, each other 表达团体成员之间，own chief是单数，因此each other好像在说dance team之间的court，但a group 和 own chief（单数）都表明这不是作者想表达的；作者想说的是 chief of another group；The presence of singular ‘chief’ indicates that all the dance teams mentioned in the sentence have the same chief, and we are not talking about different chiefs of different dance teams；“ their own chief strongly suggests that the court referred to is the court of another chief”；provide也不是前面前面clause动作represent的结果，所以也不用v-ing

C, the other indicates that there is only one other chief, whereas group of tribes suggests that there may be a number of chiefs；
‘the other’ is incorrect since the presence ‘the’ indicates that we are talking about a specific other ‘chief’. However, the sentence is clearly not talking about a specific other chief; it’s talking about ‘some other chief"；
‘so as to’ is incorrect since ‘so as to’ means ‘with this purpose’. However, ‘providing entertainment’ cannot be the purpose of ‘representing their own chief’. The two actions seem very unrelated.
‘return on’ is idiomatically incorrect here since ‘return on’ is used in a way ‘return on investment/money/assets’ i.e. when we are talking about the profit we get from something. In this sentence, we want to use it in a way ‘in exchange of’, so we need to use ‘in return for’.
D, ‘each other’ is incorrect as explained in the original sentence analysis.
The use of ‘Noun + Noun modifier’ – entertainment being provided… – is incorrect since ‘providing entertainment’ is not an additional information of the main clause; it’s a separate information about the ‘dance teams’. Besides, ‘being provided’ indicates that the entertainment is being currently provided. Clearly, such meaning doesn’t make sense in the context of the sentence.
E, as a return on 错了

脑洞君kary

看了herl的解释还是不懂，自己理了一下思路，非NN，希望大神来拍砖。[自己的理解]→由单复数看指代：each other（used as the object of a verb or preposition to show that each member of a group does sth to or for the other members)，只能指代复数，因此这里只能指dance teams，但是句子想要表达的是dance teams represent their own chief at the court of another (chief)，舞蹈对代表自己首领在另一个首领的宫殿里面提供娱乐，换取XXX、若是each other那句子的意思就是跳舞队在宫殿当中互相代表另一个队的首领（A代表B的，B代表A的）然后提供娱乐换取XXX→句子可以改为dance teams represent their own chief  of each other at the court，但是这样就和换取没有什么关系了。因此感觉another更顺一些。

我想静静

天哪才知道有这么个好地方！感谢！

sherryeveryday

Fiona09 发表于 2017-8-3 11:17
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看来之后明白了~非常感谢！

Fiona09

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