以下是引用zhouhaichen在2003-10-6 23:40:00的发言： so as to 和so that 的另一重要区别是:so that 中包含了时态,在这种情况下,不能用so as to 代替,在别处也见过这种情况,具体哪里记不清了.反过来,对于so as to ,如果没能表达从局部分正确的动作主体,需要用so that 来代替,表示与主句不同的动作主体进行so that 后面的行为.
Good ones: 10. Climatic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at first from ordinary fluctuations in the weather. (A) so gradual as to be indistinguishable (B) so gradual they can be indistinguishable (C) so gradual that they are unable to be distinguished (D) gradual enough not to be distinguishable (E) gradual enough so that one cannot distinguish them A
14. Although one link in the chain was demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require the recall of the automobile. (A) demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require (B) demonstrated as weak, but it was not sufficiently so that it required (C) demonstrably weak, but not sufficiently so to require (D) demonstrably weak, it was not so weak as to require (E) demonstrably weak, it was not weak enough that it required D
22. The Emperor Augustus, it appears, commissioned an idealized sculptured portrait, the features of which are so unrealistic as to constitute what one scholar calls an “artificial face.” (A) so unrealistic as to constitute (B) so unrealistic they constituted (C) so unrealistic that they have constituted (D) unrealistic enough so that they constitute (E) unrealistic enough so as to constitute A
BAD Example: 24. Several years ago the diet industry introduced a variety of appetite suppressants, but some of these drugs caused stomach disorders severe enough to have them banned by the Food and Drug Administration. (A) stomach disorders severe enough to have them (B) stomach disorders that were severe enough so they were (C) stomach disorders of such severity so as to be (D) such severe stomach disorders that they were (E) such severe stomach disorders as to be D
10. Students in the metropolitan school district lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries. (A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming (B) lack math skills to a large enough degree that they will be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy that becomes (C) lack of math skills is so large as to be difficult to absorb them into a city’s economy that becomes (D) are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy becoming (E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming E
14. Unlike a hurricane, which can be observed from within, a tornado is so small that such a study has not been practical. (A) that such a study has not been practical (B) that studying it that way has not been impractical (C) for such studies as this to have been impractical (D) as to not make such a study practical (E) as to be impractical of study A
237. Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries. (A) it is so debilitating that it has become an economic (B) it is of such debilitation, it has become an economical (C) so debilitating is it as to become an economic (D) such is its debilitation, it becomes an economical (E) there is so much debilitation that it has become an economical A
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