[讨论]OG11th-51

carolhide

51.   The Olympic Games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the Greek world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival's month.

(A)     world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival's month

(B)      world, proclaiming a sacred truce during the festival's month

(C)     world when they proclaimed a sacred truce for the festival month

(D)      world, for a sacred truce was proclaimed during the month of the festival

(E)      world by proclamation of a sacred truce that was for the month of the festival

Idiom + Rhetorical construction

This sentence depends on using the correct conjunction to join two independent clauses. In that is a conjunction that means inasmuch as; because in that has largely gone out of use, it is considered stilted and overly formal. It also uses two words when one would do. In this sentence, the second clause explains the first one, so the conjunction for; meaning because, is the most appropriate choice for joining the tow independent clauses of the compound sentence.

A  In that is stilted and overly formal

B  It is not clear who would be doing the proclaiming; a clause is preferable to a phase here

C  They is ambiguous, possibly referring to either the states or the Games

D  Correct. In this sentence, the conjunction for joins the two clauses correctly and economically.

E  Wordy and awkward construction

The correct answer is D.

刚打出来的，有错提醒我。

tiandaochouqin

for + clauses or Noun?

Evelyn2005

for 在这里与because是一样的意思。

wild

Thanks Carolhide.

hannah1112

上新东方时老师讲了，in that 是最好的表示原因的连词，以前还没有见过用FOR的，有点糊涂

gonghao

A festival's month  --has  big  trouble

skyinseas

问一个很笨的问题：festival's month错在那里？ 另外for引导从句时何because有什么区别？

snowfield

for跟because差不多，但意义稍弱一点，而且because前面一般没有逗号，for引导结果状语从句一般前面加逗号。

至于说in that的because意思过时，估计是gmac的新家规了。

festive's month感觉很生硬，xuedi的说法It is more idomatic to say the month of the festival. The festival is in some month, but it does not process a month，比较有道理。

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-6-26 16:33:36编辑过]

snowfield

TO seasnow:

during修饰的是truce,而不是proclaimed这个动词。

jamnboo

以下是引用snowfield在2006-6-26 16:32:00的发言：

for跟because差不多，但意义稍弱一点，而且because前面一般没有逗号，for引导结果状语从句一般前面加逗号。

至于说in that的because意思过时，估计是gmac的新家规了。

也是对于为什么不能用 in that 感到比较不理解，特地过来看讨论。

看来也能同意楼上的说法了。