新prep2-205

scholar

Unlike most other mergers in the utility industry, which have been driven by the need to save money and extend companies’ service areas, the merger of the nation’s leading gas and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening their utility markets to competition.

A. and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening

B. and electric companies are intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

C. and electric companies are intended to create a huge network that will be marketing the utilities in question, with states opening

D. company and electric company are intending to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question, with states opening

E. company and leading electric company is intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open
麻烦讲一下A与E 答案选E

liufeng881025

A会误解为是一个公司

scholar

但E也可这样理解啊？ 另外 A与E最后面state.... 做什么成分的？

fly12404

Ｅ）the nation’s leading gas company and electric company  應該可以感覺是兩家公司吧：　）？

Ｅ）ａｓ　ｓｔａｔｅｓ...ａｓ是當...
A) with state +ving 貌似獨立主格　但無逗號連接　怪異　能表達當好像也只有ｗｈｅｎ　ｗｈｉｌｅ　ａｓ
所以Ａ用ｗｉｔｈ不好呢

birdmiao

is intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open their utility markets to competition  这句话怎么翻译呢？