一道语法真题 - 为什么？

dingrhan

一道真题，答案是C， 但看起来很别扭呀。A又为什么不对呢？

Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of administration and teaching, the English language was never really spoken on the island.

excepting for

except in

but except in

but excepting for

with the exception of

Avantasia

A不是很明显的Run-on吗?

joe11

楼上说得很对哦，补充 excepting for 不贴切。

except vt. to not include something

except something from something

High technology equipment would be excepted from any trade agreement.

excepting  prep.

used to introduce the only thing or person in a group about which a statement is not true [= except (for)]:

O'Rourke answered all the questions excepting the last one.

dingrhan

那D but excepting for 为什么不对呢？

Avantasia

Excepting一般单独使用, 但是没有except for用起来idiomatic.

102. Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott Joplin's ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion.

(A)  Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged

(B)   Except for a concert performance with the composer himself staging it

(C)   Besides a concert performance being staged by the composer himself

(D)  Excepting a concert performance that the composer himself staged

(E)   With the exception of a concert performance with the staging done by the composer himself

Choice A is best. In B, the participle staging inappropriately expresses ongoing rather than completed action, and the prepositional phrase containing this participle (with... it) is unidiomatic. Likewise, C uses the participle being inappropriately. In D, the use of Excepting in place of the preposition Except for is unidiomatic. Choice E is awkward and wordy.

jnlvo

从joe11给的注释看，我认为D中的for至少不正确，可能会有歧义，the domains was really spoken on the island.另外，except更常用些，如果其它都一致的情况下，我会选except。

薰衣紫草

C

1. a, b ,e 都是两个句子没有连词并列. 错.

2. excepting for, rexcept in, with the exception of放在句中有问题.

前后都是独立的句子, 究竟是修饰前面的句子, 还是修饰后面的句子.

3. c, d 用 but使前后两句断开, 使excepting for, except in 修饰后面的句子. 但d用了分词, 修饰后面的主语. 从逻辑上讲, 是很奇怪的. the English language怎么能excepting呢? 而c用except 修饰后面的整个句子.

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-6-9 2:46:26编辑过]

Avantasia

楼主好大的面子! 楼上几位都是版主啊! ...除我以外各个都是一等一的高手! 各大高手门派迥异, 武功套路钢柔并济, 楼主自己好好参悟一下吧!

sensornet

非斑竹也来谈一下。

首先不谈连词，中间的excepting的修饰前后都可以，这一点在OG里出现了好几次。其次，这是2个句子，要有连词，而且从逻辑意思上看，except修饰后面，所以but要放在except前。最后，为啥用except in,请看http://www.ldoceonline.com/，查except这个词，题目中的except的用法那里都讲了。excepting是个介词，所以D不对。

dingrhan

非常清楚，谢谢你们！

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