A long-term study of some 1,000 physicians indicates that the more coffee these doctors drank, the more they had a likelihood of coronary diseases.
(A) the more they had a likelihood of coronary diseases
(B) more was their likelihood of having coronary disease
(C) more they would have a likelihood to have coronary disease
(D) greater was their likelihood of having coraonary disease
(E) greater was coronary disease likely
是的,你的比我的理解更简单又实用;
我对OG 里A选项的解释不明白,请帮我看看好么?谢谢! A OG解释“ This version obscures模糊 the intended correlation between coffee and likelihood. The phrase the more they had a likelihood somewhat illogically indicates that the research subjects had likelihood to a greater degree rather than that their likelihood was greater.”
我写在自己千行里的理解是:意为有“一个更大的可能性,患更严重的病”;而不是原本要表达的意思“他们患病的可能性更大”;more做adj时往往指更多的数量,做adv时指程度更深/厉害,如more likely“更有可能”;
之前解题时我吧A排除是因为likelehood不可数,这种解题思路可否?
另外,此句是部分倒装。【还以为OG解释里多少会说点关于部分倒装的知识点。。。】the more coffee these doctors drank, the greater was their likelihood of having coronary disease
若把后句语序正回来则为 the greater their likelihood of having coronary disease was ,可以对应上句,平行对应时发现coffee 对应 their likelihood,名词对名词没问题;these doctors 对应 of having coronary disease,n.对应prep.短语哦,好么??
我对A选项的理解是:more作为副词much的比较级修饰they had a likelihood of coronary. 前半句the more coffee these doctor drank 的more很明显是形容词much的比较级,修饰coffee. OG说了,
[ the+comparative adj. phrase... the+comparative adj. ]这个结构里,the two adj. phrase should have the same grammatical form. 因此后半句的“the 比较级”,也要是形容词的比较级。因此A就错了。而且语义上A和D之间有着微妙的不同,强调的侧重点不一样(语文差,表达不出来,感受一下吧)OG解释里所说的intended correlations应该就是说这个研究就是有关coffee 和 likelihood两个变量之间的关系。
可数不可数名词的“更多”都是more,Gil所说的是抽象名词,并不是所有的不可数名词都是抽象名词,所以不可以利用likelihood是不可数这点来排除~
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