OG235(以前没的)

jerry1121

235. Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Miiller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned soci­eties could bestow.

(A)  Miiller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as

(B)  Miiller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as

(C)  Miiller's career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being

(D)  Miiller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being

(E)   the career of Miiller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of

The best answer, B, uses the logical and grammatically correct construction. Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Miiller's career began . . . and culminated. Note that the noun phrase appearing after the comma is modified by Spanning and serves as the subject of began and culmi­nated. Choice A produces an illogical statement by placing Friedrich Miiller in this subject position. Choice C corrects this error but produces an unidiomatic construction by using apprenticeship of being instead of apprenticeship as. Choice D repeats both this error and the subject error of A. D and E needlessly change the simple past tense began to the past perfect had begun and the present perfect has begun, respec­tively, and E uses apprenticeship of, which is unidiomatic in this context.

问题是:

  Miiller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as Sanskrit scholar .

可以说我的事业开始与...AS Sanskrit scholar 吗?事业AS Sanskrit scholar?

请指点

薰衣紫草

"as Sanskrit scholar" does not modify "career" but modifies "appprenticeship".

"As" is followed by a noun, and only a noun; therefore, "as" here is not a conj. but a prep. A prep. verse modifies the noun right in front of it rather than the whole sentence.

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jerry1121

GOT!