The correlation of carbon dioxide with temperature, of course, does not establish whether changes in atmospheric composition caused the warming and cooling trends or were caused by their.
这是杨鹏GRE阅读难句解读的一句话,作者解释说or之后省略了与whether一句重相同的主语changes(in atmospheric composition);最后的their之后又省略了与whether从句的主语一样的changes。如果将their之后省略的内容看成是warming and cooling trends还是composition都是错误理解。
可我就是理解不上去呐,如果按笔者说说法,还原的句子是changes were caused by changes? 我觉得不对,那位给个说法。谢谢