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wxiaobin

255. The bank holds $3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent or in such trouble that they do not expect payments when due.

(A) they do not expect payments when
(B) it does not expect payments when it is
(C) it does not expect payments to be made when they are
(D) payments are not to be expected to be paid when
(E) payments are not expected to be paid when they will be

hccihll

pay payments不是正確的慣用語,正確的慣用語應是make payments才是

braveMBA

什么问题？

D、E先排除payment ..expected to be paid 意思重复；A中的THEY有指代错误，BANK；B中的两个it如果指代BANK，说bank is due是不合理的。OG好象解释得还比较清楚。

wxiaobin

谢谢楼上的热情回帖。

我就是觉得it does not expect很繁琐，但是d e确实又不大对，每个都有致命错误。所以比较困惑

roberta

255. The bank holds $3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent or in such trouble that they do not expect payments when due.

(A)  they do not expect payments when

(B)  it does not expect payments when it is

(C)  it does not expect payments to be made when they are

(D)  payments are not to be expected to be paid when

(E)   payments are not expected to be paid when they will be

Choice C is the best answer,

以下是引用braveMBA在2003-9-20 1:52:00的发言：
什么问题？

D、E先排除payment ..expected to be paid 意思重复；A中的THEY有指代错误，BANK；B中的两个it如果指代BANK，说bank is due是不合理的。OG好象解释得还比较清楚。

为什么payment.. expected to be paid意思重复呢

OG对E的解释是payments... to be paid is redun­dant and unidiomatic,不知怎么重复了，如何修改，还请大家多多指教

谢谢！

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-8-18 15:29:55编辑过]

leslie123456789

payment 和 pay（paid）不就是同一个意思吗？

roberta

谢谢leslie mm的明示

偶太糊涂了，开始硬是没看出来

xionghuixh

C中 的 THEY 是不是也有点指代模糊,因为,是不是有可能指代loans??

指代问题一直把我弄糊涂了??

hougang

个人觉得那样指代的话，可能会太远了点吧，而且我觉得关于指代的问题，还应该能够从逻辑上去加以判断。

但是具体说不清楚，还请nn指教。

kenshin

可以这样指代的原因在于，整个句子的主语就是bank，而且这里仅有一个单数名词，所以不会混淆的。另外payments are not expected to be made是可以的，to be paid是不可以的

LES

代词指代遵循就近优先指代原则。