急TAT对and的用法有点疑惑..欢迎大家来讨论

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正在看杨鹏长难句，里面有两个句子让我觉得很奇怪;
1)the nonstarters were considered the ones who wanted stability,a strong referee to give them some position in the race,a regulative hand to calm manic speculation;an authority that can call things to a halt,begin things again  from compensatorily staggered"starting line"
这个句子里，我认为stability, referee,hand,authority应该是平行在who wanted里的，可是为什么 an authority前加了一个分号？加了分号之后后面这个分句不就独立于前面了？那句子也不完整呀..咋回事了？我理解里应该是把分号改成and 才不会有这个问题，想问问大家的意见
类似的，这道题里：
2）fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy  the "old world"categories of settled possessiveness versu unsettling deprivation,the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of siezure, a"status quo"defended or attacked.
同样，我的疑惑也是，a status quo之前为什么不需要一个and来连接成分？
我之前自己对and 的总结是这样的：它作为一个连词可以连接逻辑上平行的句子/动词/名词，那OG17的这道题：
As a result of record low temperatures, the water pipes on the third floor froze, which
caused the heads of the sprinkler system to burst, which released torrents of water into
offices on the second floor.
A. which caused the heads of the sprinkler system to burst, which released torrents of
water
B. which caused the heads of the sprinkler system to burst and which released
torrents of water
C. which caused the heads of the sprinkler system to burst, torrents of water were
then released
D. causing the heads of the sprinkler system to burst, then releasing torrents of water
E. causing the heads of the sprinkler system to burst and release torrents of water

若我们忽略逻辑上的错误，D选项是不是也是要在then之前加一个and句子才是完整的？
希望大家分享一下看法啦~~谢谢谢谢~嘻嘻

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希望听听大神们的说法现在有点蒙

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有人吗