Starfish, with anywhere from five to eight arms, have a strong regenerative ability, and if one arm is lost it quickly replaces it. sometimes by the animal overcompensating and growing an extra one or two.
Starfish, with anywhere from five to eight arms, have a strong regenerative ability, and if one arm is lost it quickly replaces it, sometimes by the animal overcompensating and growing an extra one or two.
A one arm is lost it quickly replaces it, sometimes by the animal overcompensating and B one arm is lost it is quickly replaced, with the animal sometimes overcompensating and C they lose one arm they quickly replace it, sometimes by the animal overcompensating, D they lose one arm they are quickly replaced, with the animal sometimes overcompensating, E they lose one arm it is quickly replaced, sometimes with the animal overcompensating,
我的问题是: (1) with anywhere from five to eight arms: Prep里说with+名词表示主语“拥有”with后面的名词,这种结构我能理解。可是不太理解with + anywhere from...这个是什么用法?如何翻译,是说anywhere的starfish都是5-8 arms还是...? (2) 在正选B中的with the animal sometimes overcompensating...这个with有是什么用法?如何理解? (3) 我不是很理解为什么growing和overcompensating是并列关系,为什么growing不能修饰overcompensating呢?
Starfish, with anywhere from five to eight arms, have a strong regenerative ability, and if one arm is lost it quickly replaces it, sometimes by the animal overcompensating and growing an extra one or two.
A one arm is lost it quickly replaces it, sometimes by the animal overcompensating and B one arm is lost it is quickly replaced, with the animal sometimes overcompensating and C they lose one arm they quickly replace it, sometimes by the animal overcompensating, D they lose one arm they are quickly replaced, with the animal sometimes overcompensating, E they lose one arm it is quickly replaced, sometimes with the animal overcompensating,
我的问题是: (1) with anywhere from five to eight arms: Prep里说with+名词表示主语“拥有”with后面的名词,这种结构我能理解。可是不太理解with + anywhere from...这个是什么用法?如何翻译,是说anywhere的starfish都是5-8 arms还是...? (2) 在正选B中的with the animal sometimes overcompensating...这个with有是什么用法?如何理解? (3) 我不是很理解为什么growing和overcompensating是并列关系,为什么growing不能修饰overcompensating呢?
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-- by 会员 shl020 (2012/7/20 16:34:18)
(1)"Starfish, with anywhere from five to eight arms," 对于这个的理解是这样的:意思是说“海星,无论在哪里都有5-8只触手”,这里的anywhere可以说是用来修饰with的,只不过在位置上可能有些前置 (2)这里的with是独立主格,表示伴随,修饰主句的主谓;理解起来的意思是“...如果它们的一个触手丢失了,这个触手会很快(通过这种动物的过度补偿和本身就多长了一个或两个触手)被替换”,with就是括号里的内容 (3)growing和compensating本身两个都是动名词,是不能相互修饰的;再由意思可以判断两个是并列的,补充触手可以是海星自身的过度补偿,也可以是海星本身就多长了触手
也就是说overcompensating and growing an extra one or two只是replace的意外情况而不是刻意这么做,所以with比by要更准确。顺便这两个动作是明显有前后关系的,没有overcompensating就没有growing an extra one or two,所以需要用and来表示这种递进关系。
这道题目的考点有两个:Agreement、Modifier
通过主谓一致,可以排除A、D。
B、C、E主要考察的是modifier,可以发现其实splits在于sometimes by/with, 还是with sometimes。
Modifier的判别要从句意考虑,如果replace可以sometimes by/with overcompensatinig,那么也就是说replace还可以sometimes NOT by/with overcompensating, 句子不是这个意思。
另外,如同OG从rhetorical上解释也可以排除E。
我觉得这题的难点在于B和C,语法上BC都是正确的,C: they lose one arm they quickly replace it, sometimes by the animal overcompensating, growing an extra one or two. 这里用的Verb+ing修饰主句,growing an extra one or two表示对they replace it的结果或同时发生的状态,如果这样的结构,sometimes by the animal overcompensating显示是插入语,也就是说growing an extra one or two这个结果和“sometimes by the animal overcompensating”这句话没有必然联系,即使没有这句,结果还是会growing an extra one or two, 但是显然逻辑上不 make sense. 因此只有选B。
从这道题上我有两个learning:
1. keep in mind SC is basically GRAMMAR when we look through all answer choices.
2. keep in mind SC is specially MEANING when only 2 or 3 options left.
按照这个思路,谈一下个人关于by和with的区别吧,轻拍
by:表达的意思是有时通过overcompensate来replace (不是intended meaning吧)
with:表伴随修饰前面的句子if one arm is lost it is quickly replaced,表达的意思是如果一只触角掉了,它可以很快被替代,【有时(甚至)会过度补偿】 【】中是with...中的内容
OG对C 选项解释的这句: This answer choice allows the unintended reading that the animal replaces the missing arm by overcompensating.
我就是这么理解的啊,难道不是通过overcompensating来弥补失去的触角么= =
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对此很迷惑,是不是因为C是说通过overcompensating,而应该是通过overcompensating and growing...,
不过想想还是不太对