In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion

Puddingjiang

In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added as the message is forwarded to others or sent back and forth.

(A) who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added
(B) who had still been harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might have added
(C) who still were harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person is privy to any comments that a recipient would add
(D) still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that enables an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient might add
(E) still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges had been private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that will enable an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might add



正确答案是D。


ron的解答是，a watchdog group uncovered a trick that enables...so that this person will...之所以成立，是因为uncover后面描述的一种GENERAL TRUTHS（普遍真理）。但是我不理解，为什么这个trick是个普遍真理？我理解只是一个为了粉碎那些有illusion的人的一个实验（毕竟是trick啊）罢了。


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ba1a糖儿

①Ron指的是“E-mail exchanges are privite”中的are表示的是 general statement ；
②recently uncovered中的uncover点明了group发出动作的时态（也就是相对于现在来说已经是过去的事，这是描述一个动作） 后面enabling... will be privy就是在陈述一个事实呀，如果。。。，privy就会... 和①一样
就相当于一个suppose/hypo/..，如果A怎么样，B会怎么样，也就是陈述了~~所以不能用过去时