OG18 805 对OG解释的疑问

ScarlettDeng

138. Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better poet than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed by his success.(A) Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better poet than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed by his success.

(B) Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning was considered among her contemporaries as a better poet than her husband, she was later
overshadowed by his success.

(C) Later overshadowed by the success of her husband, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry had been considered among her contemporaries to be better than that of her husband.

(D) Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s success was later overshadowed by that of her husband, among her contemporaries she was considered the better poet.

(E) Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry was considered among her contemporaries as better than her husband, but her success was later
overshadowed by his.

正确答案是D

贴下og的解释：
The sentence misuses the locution the better poet. It is acceptable to say a better poet than but not the better poet than. If you have already mentioned two poets X and Y, and you want to say that X is better than Y, you can either say X is a better poet than Y, or simply, X is the better poet.

A This version of the sentence misuses the idiom the better poet, most likely confusing it with the idiom a better poet than.

B [W]as considered among her contemporaries as is awkward and unnecessarily creates a potential misreading (she was considered to be
among her contemporaries).

C The subject here is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry, not Elizabeth Barrett Browning, so the antecedent of her in her husband could comically be taken to be Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry. Furthermore, the tense of had been considered pairs oddly with Later overshadowed. Each seems to be in reaction to some particular time T—later than T and earlier than T, but when T was or its significance is never indicated.

D Correct. This version avoids the problems of the other versions.

E This sentence comically compares Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry to her husband.



问题：
OG中对C选项的时态解释也就是标黄底的地方是什么意思啊?
Furthermore, the tense of had been considered pairs oddly with Later overshadowed. Each seems to be in reaction to some particular time T—later than T and earlier than T, but when T was or its significance is never indicated.
是“时态会让人不知道该事什么时候发生吗？”的意思吗？


Later overshadowed by the success of her husband, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry had been considered among her contemporaries to be better than that of her husband.
在这里我如果不看解释，我的理解是，这里如果用了had been就表明better than husband是发生在be overshadowed之前，不用的话因为overshadowed前面有later，还是可以知道better than husband是发生在be overshadowed之前。

所以我不太懂， Each seems to be in reaction to some particular time T—later than T and earlier than T, but when T was or its significance is never indicated. 这句话是什么意思？

爱采蘑菇小姑凉

首先要明确OG的解释和OG的出题人是不同的人，这个在曼哈顿论坛上Ron解释过。GMAT的题目都是100%正确的，没有漏洞。但是为了节约成本，答案的解释都是外包给另外一群人，这群人的能力是肯定没有出题人那么强的，所以有时候写的解析感觉也不是特别清楚。

OG提到的这个时态问题我觉得最多只能算是awkward，但是我业不会明确的觉得可以成为排除的理由。因为句子中的两个动作是没有明显的时间先后关系的，但是按照C的时态用法，就把两个事件强行变成先后顺序：

伊丽莎白的诗被同代人认为更好-这个动作有可能是贯穿伊丽莎白一生的，或者这一代人一直都这么认为，没有某一个固定发生的时间点。
伊丽莎白后来被丈夫的成功所掩盖-这个later, 我认为是指later in her life，即她的后半生慢慢的被丈夫的成功所掩盖。就像“Later, John was excelled by his kids" 一样，later就是泛指后来，或者某人的后半生。

所以这里的时态用法错误的把这两个动作进行比较，认为一个在前，一个在后就跟awkward。

However，考试的时候鬼才想那么多，跟没没有事件去琢磨这么细的问题。这个选项有另外两个更简单的识别点：

1. X'S 的这个X不能被任何代词所指，也就是OG解释里面的前半句话。（这个太明显了，确认过眼神，就可以划掉了）

2. 第二个还是句意的问题，到底是什么overshadowed by the success of her husband，这里是伊丽莎白更为合适。如果是伊丽莎白的诗的话，应该改成 Later overshadowed by the success of her husband’s poetry.

Thanks

ScarlettDeng

爱采蘑菇小姑凉 发表于 2018-8-14 01:21
首先要明确OG的解释和OG的出题人是不同的人，这个在曼哈顿论坛上Ron解释过。GMAT的题目都是100%正确的，没 ...

啊，我懂了，谢谢~

kluivert

关于c选项OG的解释，我个人理解。

Furthermore, the tense of had been considered pairs oddly with Later overshadowed. Each seems to be in reaction to some particular time T—later than T and earlier than T, but when T was or its significance is never indicated.

had been considered 时态和later overshadowed搭配非常怪异。每个看上去是基于某个时间点T...T之后，T之前， 可这个时间点T是什么时候？也没有明确示意出

菜鸟在此，多多指教
谢谢

ScarlettDeng

kluivert 发表于 2018-8-17 09:58
关于c选项OG的解释，我个人理解。

Furthermore, the tense of had been considered pairs  ...

哦哦原来T是一个用来对标的基准，谢谢哈~

kluivert

ScarlettDeng 发表于 2018-8-17 12:39
哦哦原来T是一个用来对标的基准，谢谢哈~

过去完成时必须有个时间对比，要不是不成立的。只是简单称述过去一件时间，用一般过去式
by the time we got to the train station , the train had already left

train 在我们到达之前就离开了 ..by the time we got there就是那个T