OG12th 76题干中head是什么意思捏？

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76. Retailers reported moderate gains in their November
sales, as much because of their sales of a year earlier
being so bad as that shoppers were getting a head
start on buying their holiday gifts.

(A)of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as
that

(B)of their sales a year earlier having been as bad
as because

(C)of their sales a year earlier being as bad as
because

(D)their sales a year earlier had been so bad as
because

(E)their sales of a year earlier were as bad as that

答案和结构都没问题，就是
一、这里的“getting a head start”，这个head是什么意思捏？
二、a year earlier可以不加介词还是必须不加介词？我语感也是不加，可是没有理论支持。。of a year earlier是不是也可以？OG这题的解释没有提到of这个结构
查过以前的帖子，木有问这个的，是我知识太匮乏了吗？有劳牛牛们指教！感激不尽

liliannechang

第2个问题的of我也不明白！UP！！！！！！！！！！！！

zwhjzwhj

首先金山词霸里翻译get a head start on是‘走在别人的前面’的意思，是‘美国俚语’

第二个，我也困扰到底要不要加那个of，但是我觉得下面的解释不对
sales of a year earlier  就是指一年前啊，有什么不对的呢？

1.head start,领先（名词）词典里可以查到
getting a head start on buying意思为：在采购中取得领先地位

2.我脚的两个在语法上都对，得从meaning 上区分
sales a year earlier 中，sales是中心词， a year earlier 是后置定语修饰sales，表示上一年的销售额
sales of a year earlier，表示的是之前的某一年，不是特指去年哦
显然原句要表达的是sales a year earlier

-- by 会员 colinkelly (2012/3/29 21:52:25)

99qiuqiu

个人认为

head start 翻译为“ 提前(in advance)”更好吧

colinkelly

1.head start,领先（名词）词典里可以查到
getting a head start on buying意思为：在采购中取得领先地位


2.我脚的两个在语法上都对，得从meaning 上区分
sales a year earlier 中，sales是中心词， a year earlier 是后置定语修饰sales，表示上一年的销售额
sales of a year earlier，表示的是之前的某一年，不是特指去年哦
显然原句要表达的是sales a year earlier

亲亲麦小兜

head是刚开始的意思吧，在前端

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自。己。顶。