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gwd-11-14:
The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.
A. banked with dirt to a height of
B. banked with dirt as high as that of
C. banked them with dirt to a height of
- was banked with dirt as high as
- was banked with dirt as high as that of
A、D的争论很多,我现在偏向于D,因为觉得除了逻辑意思上通顺以外(A选项意味着framework被垫高到3-4feet,注意是垫高到,而不是垫高了,也就是说framework的最后高度是3-4feet,个人觉得实在讲不过去,太矮了),是不是A选项还容易引起歧义呢?比如说容易让人理解为既有可能与conical 并列,又有可能与overlaid并列。(这可能涉及到另外一个语法点,如果句子的表达形式如下:
s+be +adj and be+分词......,第二个be动词可以省略吗? ,如果可以的话,就存在上述的歧义问题,如果不可以的话,那就没有歧义了)
困惑中。。。。 |