看了小安的新题总结后有一题不太明白 谢谢解答！

lisaislisa

10.Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits caused by the desire to be as thin as possible.
A. Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits caused by the desire to be as thin as possible
B. Good eating habits sometimes fail to be maintained by young female ballet dancers and gymnasts caused by desiring to be as thin as possible
C. Because they desire to be as thin as possible, good eating habits are sometimes not maintained by young female ballet dancers and gymnasts
D. Because they desire to be as thin as possible, young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits
E. Young female dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits because they desire to be as thin as possible

lisaislisa

我选了E
答案是B ，可觉得这个caused by desiring to be as thin as possible还是修饰不明确呀。
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braveMBA

答案应该是D。

givemeahome

答案是E, D 的ballet dancers and gymnasts 有歧义

jq_jou

给个LINK好不好? 谢谢

braveMBA

以下是引用givemeahome在2003-9-23 15:37:00的发言：
答案是E, D 的ballet dancers and gymnasts 有歧义

有什么歧义？E呢？habits的歧义更大，同时E也没有解决D存在的歧义问题。当从句在句首，其代词指代主句主语所引发的歧义，要比在主句后同主句中多个复数名词所引发的歧义相对要小，因为位置的原因。

lizaz

题目没打错吗？如E中ballet应该是漏掉的。
D的句子强调重心改变了，应该不对。
B跟A的区别是把主动变成了被动，让caused紧跟young female ballet dancers and gymnasts，但caused的发出者应该是前面的整个句子，这样B的改动一样没有表达清楚原句的意思。
个人倾向于选E。

givemeahome

D. Because they desire to be as thin as possible, young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits
E. Young female dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits because they desire to be as thin as possible

这两句的they 都指代 Young female dancers and gymnasts  或 young female ballet dancers and gymnasts  从修饰的角度看 可以说yong female gymnasts 但不可说 yong female ballet gymnasts. 既然they 指代集合名词这个集合名词不该受重视吗

dandan74

感觉是E, 因为句子的重心是在说fail, 原因应该放在后面。

gemj

以下是引用jq_jou在2003-9-24 10:41:00的发言：
给个LINK好不好? 谢谢

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=22&ID=12763