og 180 选项A中during为什么不存在歧义？

LRzealot

180. Quasars are so distant that their light has taken billions of years to reach the Earth; consequently, we see them as they were during the formation of the universe.

(A)  we see them as they were during

(B)   we see them as they had been during

(C)  we see them as if during

(D)  they appear to us as they did in

(E)   they appear to us as though in

A, the best choice, correctly employs the simple past verb tense to describe a past condition. Choice B inappropriately switches to the past perfect (had been); the past perfect properly describes action that is completed prior to some other event described with the simple past tense. Choice C presents a dangling adverbial modifier, as if during ..., that illogically modifies we see. D ambiguously suggests that the quasars appeared to us in the formation of the universe--that is, as though we were present to view them then. In E, as though in distorts the meaning to suggest that we see the quasars in a hypothetical situation-- that is, that they may not have been involved in the formation of the universe.

We see them as they were during the formation of the universe.

during时间状语要是修饰we see而不是they were呢？那不就变成我们在宇宙形成时进行观测吗？谢谢大家帮忙

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-8-29 23:00:18编辑过]

howardwang

as they were during the formation of the universe整体是时间状语从句.

during the formation of the universe是表语

LRzealot

we see them as they were // during...

were 这里是省略形式表示原来的状态把？ during这里应该是时间状语 大全里有OG解释的一道老题就是说during的歧义。

9.     Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.

(A) Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.

(B) What brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wage and price controls.

(C) That which brought the ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.

(D) What has brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wages and price controls.（B）

(E) To bring the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War, there was a special price increase during a period of wages and price controls that government sanctioned.

Choice A, awkward and imprecise, leaves one confused about what it was that happened during a period of wage and price controls—the revitalization of the Ford Motor Company or the sanctioning of a price increase. B, the best answer, clarifies the matter by making during… modify the government sanctioned. Choice C, wordy and awkward, suffers from the same imprecision as choice A. the present perfect has brought in D is inappropriate for action completed well in past, and wages, which should modify control, is not idiomatic. In choice E, wages is again wrong, and E, contrary to intent, suggests that the government sanctioned a period of … controls rather than a special price increase. The question is of middle difficulty.

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carol1216

In E, as though in distorts the meaning to suggest that we see the quasars in a hypothetical situation-- that is, that they may not have been involved in the formation of the universe.

没看懂og对E的解释，请高人指点