【求助】OG18 SC.782 语法乱炖

sherryeveryday

With the patience of its customers and with its network strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives trying to relieve the congestion that has led to at least four class-action lawsuits and thousands of complaints from frustrated customers.

A.        the patience of its customers and with its network strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives trying to relieve
B.        the patience of its customers and its network strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives that try to relieve
C.        its network and the patience of its customers strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives to try to relieve
D.        its network and with the patience of its customers strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of initiatives to try relieving
E.        its network and its customers’ patience strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives to try relieving

看完之后满脸黑人问号。。
1) 首先想知道with加在and后边是不是就说明and前后的名词被分成两个独立的个体，and前面那个名词就不能与后面那个名词共享strained to the breaking point这件事情了？
2）try to do 和 try doing的区别。看外网上解释是说doing在这里是表示与announced同时发生，但原文意思是relieve是announced的目的，所以用to do。那在一般情况下怎么区分是用to do还是doing呢？

啊什么时候才能从正确率不到50%的泥沼中爬出来啊 T T

安成

我也不太懂，说一下我的看法啊……

1）and 平行结构在这里是 “its customer" 和 "its network”。 with 后面是 “the patience of”。 要不然就是 ”the patience of its customer“ 和 “the breaking point of its network stain" 了……

2) 也只是我的理解，感觉trying 的话前面就应该是announcing 了? 我也不太懂，求指导。

安成

等下，突然发现笔记上有这个：

try to do 努力去完成
try doing 尝试去做
然而和这道题没有什么关系……不好意思当我没说 （不知道怎么删除已发贴）

sherryeveryday

安成 发表于 2017-8-3 22:47
等下，突然发现笔记上有这个：

try to do 努力去完成

啊！with那个我知道了 谢谢你~
没关系没关系~正好我也分不清try to do 和try doing

maplesida

infinitive 有 purpose 的意味, new initiative 用 try + infinitive 表目的较好。

sherryeveryday

maplesida 发表于 2017-8-4 16:38
infinitive 有 purpose 的意味, new initiative 用 try + infinitive 表目的较好。

明白了~感谢！

gar_bbbbb

sherryeveryday 发表于 2017-8-4 11:37
啊！with那个我知道了 谢谢你~
没关系没关系~正好我也分不清try to do 和try doing ...

刚刚看到这个问题，ron神的回复。

if THE GOAL is to '____', then you 'try to ____'.
in this case it is not certain whether the subject will successfully '____'.
---Tomorrow, Ram's five-year-old daughter will try to ride a bicycle.
--> THE GOAL is to ride a bike. it is not certain whether she will succeed.

on the other hand, if '____ing' is a method you're using to try to achieve some goal (and is not the goal itself), then you 'try ____ing' in order to achieve that goal.
here, the subject is definitely able to '____', although it's an open question whether the actual goal will be achieved.
---I will try riding a bicycle to the store, because I don't have the time to walk there.
--> i know how to ride a bike. this isn't the goal. the goal is to get to the store in less time than it would take to go there on foot.
(in this example, 'riding' is no different from any other NOUN representing some method—e.g., I'm going to try the subway.)

sherryeveryday

gar_bbbbb 发表于 2017-8-8 12:43
刚刚看到这个问题，ron神的回复。

if THE GOAL is to '____', then you 'try to ____'.

嗯嗯明白了！感谢！不过英语的规矩真的好多。。

gar_bbbbb

sherryeveryday 发表于 2017-8-8 18:37
嗯嗯明白了！感谢！不过英语的规矩真的好多。。

嘿嘿，不用谢，感觉就是靠感觉TAT，完全记不来，大家一起进步。

GMAT四个月加油

个人觉得 with A and with B strained to sth. 这时的 strained to sth. 只修饰B
当 with A and B strained to sth. 这种情况时，A and B作为一个整体，被 strained to sth. 修饰