OG-129

submarinebaby

129. In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vint­ners have cut prices; their wines have been priced to sell. and they are.

(A)  have been priced to sell, and they are

(B)  are priced to sell, and they have

(C)  are priced to sell, and they do

(D)  are being priced to sell, and have

(E)   had been priced to sell, and they have

这道题是不是没有全.我看了半天也不知道说的什么.price to sell是说标价卖的意思吗?但是酒做出来不就是为了卖吗?为什么要专门强调呢.还有这个they are是省略吗?答案是选C的.请大牛们帮忙看看.

andrew_li

In priced to sell, the price means 定价. the whole phrase priced to sell means 制定能使之畅销的价格。they do is the abbreviation of they do sell.

submarinebaby

I see I see. 谢谢斑竹咯.

xxiaoyan

接着问个问题： are priced to sell, and they do

后半句是省略，但前面是be动词啊，后面不应该是and they are吗，为什么是do?

(看了前人的讨论，they可以指代wines),如果是do的话是不是就变为and they do reprodce their inventories了？

lpdeng

以下是引用xxiaoyan在2005-8-5 16:46:00的发言：

接着问个问题： are priced to sell, and they do

后半句是省略，但前面是be动词啊，后面不应该是and they are吗，为什么是do?

(看了前人的讨论，they可以指代wines),如果是do的话是不是就变为and they do reprodce their inventories了？

这里并不是考平衡结构。 重点在句子的逻辑与语法意思上。

kingjim

接着问个问题： are priced to sell, and they do

        

后半句是省略，但前面是be动词啊，后面不应该是and they are吗，为什么是do?

        

(看了前人的讨论，they可以指代wines),如果是do的话是不是就变为and they do reprodce their inventories了？

首先还是要理解句子的意思吧。and they do是指wines的确卖得非常好。不省略的话应该是and their wines do sell (well)。

所以这里并不是因为重复了前文的意思而省略，而是新的意思里面有可以省略的部分所以才省略（当然因为前文也是说的Sell）。

如果一定要认为这个省略是前面所出现过的具体内容的话，就会钻上面这样的牛角尖了。