og156句子翻译？

brissa

156. Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out

that dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads.

(A) dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads

(B) dirt roads cost twice as much to maintain as paved roads do

(C) maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as paved roads do

(D) maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as it does for paved roads

(E) to maintain dirt roads costs twice as much as for paved roads



这道题使我产生歧异的是原句的意思：到底是：维护dirt road的花费是维护新路的两倍呢，还是维护dirt road的费用相当于修个新路的费用？



按常理，我们说话的时候一般会说：维护费是重新修新路的费用的两倍，所以维护脏路不好。

而原文的意思是：比较两个维护费用的差别。（这当然也合理，但我觉得更合理的是上面的意思，而我们平常说话一般也是这么说的）



我的疑惑是，如何在划线部分并没有明确给出句子逻辑意思的情况下判断出应该按上述哪个句意来找选项？

liliy4gmat

这道题考的是比较对象的平行，对称

我个人觉得翻译过来，是两种路维修费用的比较

顺路请教nn们，把to maitain放在了as much--as 中间是不是有避免起义的功效，

免得maitain 和 cost两个动词都在as much as前面？？

yuyingchao

to maintain 为何放中间
我认为主要是句子结构的问题:
Sth cost $$ to V….(sth 花了多少钱$$去做什么事)

Dirt roads cost $$ to maintain 和
paved road cost $ to maintain比较

twice as much as 是比较两者的花费($$)
è Dirt road cost twice as much to maintain as paved road cost to maintain.

Cost to maintain和前面相同可以简化，cost用助动词do，to maintain共享，

因此简化后

è Dirt road cost twice as much to maintain as paved road do.

不对之处 还请指教

brissa

谁也没告诉我到底怎么翻译。为什么不能是旧路的维护费用和新路的修建费用相比较呢？

薰衣紫草

1. 无论是谁跟谁平行, 关键是要平行.

2. 原文中只提到两种不同的路, 并没有说"新路"/"旧路".

brissa

是是是，我这里就是简称了一下。旧路指dirt road, 而新路指 paved road.



现在，谁能告诉我为什么不能是dirt road 的维护费用和paved road 的修建费用相比较了吧？

jnlvo

B中补全dirt roads cost twice as much to maintain as paved roads cost to maintain 。比的都是to maintain 的费用。

Gmat一个原则，不能脱离原文去想象。从A到E都没有信息提示有修建费