og13 SC 81=og12 78 有木有人来解答which 修饰问题？？感激不尽

mky1991ll

Fossils of the arm of a sloth found in Puerto Rico in 1991, and dated at 34 million years old, made it the earliest known mammal of the Greater Antilles Islands.

(A) sloth found in Puerto Rico in 1991, and dated at 34 million years old, made it the earliest known mammal of
(B) sloth, that they found in Puerto Rico in 1991, has been dated at 34 million years old, thus making it the earliest mammal known on
(C) sloth that was found in Puerto Rico in 1991, was dated at 34 million years old, making this the earliest known mammal of
(D) sloth, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, have been dated at 34 million years old, making the sloth the earliest known mammal on
(E) sloth which, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, was dated at 34 million years old, made the sloth the earliest known mammal of
答案是D，我想问，E选项中，which指代谁》found 修饰sloth还是fossils?

renita12

which 就近指代sloth 语意错~

wsywsywsy

翻译：
一种1991年在波多黎各发现的树懒的臂骨化石，可以追溯到34,000,000，这使得这种树懒成为Greater Antilles islands上已知最早的哺乳动物。
句式：
Fossils……have been dated ……，making……
思路：
首先可以看到主句主语是Fossils（复数），发现选项中与之对应的谓语有单有复，排除BCE，A选项中， and之前是Fossils和它的定语，无法与之后的dated并列，且Fossil…，made it the earliest known mammal翻译为化石使得树懒变成….，逻辑语义不对，所以A错，选D。
选项：
A. and dated 表达不对，dated应该是与founded并列，一起修饰fossils；之后made it the earliest known mammal，翻译为：树懒是最早发现的哺乳动物，但是文章要表达的意思应该是：1991年发现树懒的化石后，因为化石可以追溯到34million年前，所以树懒成为了迄今为止已发现的动物中最早的一种。还有made之后it离先行词sloth太远，指代不清；
B．hat they found，they没有先行词；has been dated与Fossils主谓不一致；thus making  it不对，thus表示直接因果，但是化石被发现跟后面树懒变成已知最早的哺乳动物之间没有直接的因果关系；making it指代不清
C．was dated at与Fossils主谓不一致；the earliest known产生歧义。
D．正确. making伴随表结果
E．sloth之后的which多余；was dated at与Fossils主谓不一致；the earliest known产生歧义。

mky1991ll

wsywsywsy 发表于 2013-10-8 22:00
翻译：
一种1991年在波多黎各发现的树懒的臂骨化石，可以追溯到34,000,000，这使得这种树懒成为Greater Ant ...

解释很详尽啊，灰常感谢~~，我原是对E选项这样理解的，which引导的从句里，found，，，变成了插入语，was dated 的主语是sloth 。（ 本人语法真的很内什么）  如果which 指代sloth，found被逗号括起来,was  的主语为什么能看出是fossils而不是sloth呢？

waytous

mky1991ll 发表于 2013-10-9 08:40
解释很详尽啊，灰常感谢~~，我原是对E选项这样理解的，which引导的从句里，found，，，变成了插入语，was ...

Hi我跟你犯了同样的错，你楼上那哥们儿说的对，语义错。如果看曼哈顿，上面写尽可能保留原文意思。此处找到的（found）是什么呢，原文说找到的是fossils，如果按咱们同错的E理解，则找到的会是sloth。因此，fossils应为复数，was 错。

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