求助：OG-35-218

waterg

请问这句句子的结构是怎么样的。我怎么看都是emerging issues gave MA advocacy group the means 的意思是：emerging issues是means。 promote ethnic solidarity前面有个to，不是表示目的吗？

Such emerg-ing issues as immigration and voting rights gave Mexican
American advocacy groups the means by which to promote
ethnic solidarity

OG的解释是： Choice C is incorrect because the

passage suggests that ethnic history and culture were not ends in themselves but were used to

promote political ends.

多谢了！

waterg

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fuyun

Such emerg-ing issues as immigration and voting rights gave Mexican
American advocacy groups the means by which to promote
ethnic solidarity

give sb sth ; by whick to ...修饰the means

OG的解释是： Choice C is incorrect because the

passage suggests that ethnic history and culture were not ends in themselves but were used to

promote political ends.

引用wangyu73cn nn

是说其终极目标在于政治方面。

chyyoung780

感謝王大的解釋

rorarora

以下是引用wangyu73cn在2005-8-31 11:52:00的发言：

The Civil Rights movement also brought changes in the

uses to which ethnicity was put by Mexican American

people.

这句话怎么也看不懂，应该是翻译成 美籍墨西哥人运用ethiniciy的方式应civil rights movement而改变了......

the use to which....was put by....怎么看怎么别扭

xiaochun624

以下是引用rorarora在2008-5-4 17:01:00的发言：

这句话怎么也看不懂，应该是翻译成 美籍墨西哥人运用ethiniciy的方式应civil rights movement而改变了......

the use to which....was put by....怎么看怎么别扭

The ethinicity was put to uses by M A

The Civial Movement changed this uses...

My thoughts..open to discussion