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lr2007gr

Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings.

(A) prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings

(B) prohibiting that landfills accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings

(C) prohibiting landfills from accepting leaves, brush, and grass clippings

(D) that leaves, brush, and grass clippings cannot be accepted in landfills（C）

(E) that landfills cannot accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings

OG 解释: D and E introduce constructions that, in context, are faulty. First of all, both bans that x cannot be done and bans that y cannot do x are unidiomatic formulations. Secondly, the negative cannot after bans is illogical.

为什么both bans that x cannot be done and bans that y cannot do x are unidiomatic formulations?

为什么 the negative cannot after bans is illogical?

xizzhu

以下是引用lr2007gr在2006-5-4 12:20:00的发言：

Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings.

(A) prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings

(B) prohibiting that landfills accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings

(C) prohibiting landfills from accepting leaves, brush, and grass clippings

(D) that leaves, brush, and grass clippings cannot be accepted in landfills（C）

(E) that landfills cannot accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings

OG 解释: D and E introduce constructions that, in context, are faulty. First of all, both bans that x cannot be done and bans that y cannot do x are unidiomatic formulations. Secondly, the negative cannot after bans is illogical.

为什么both bans that x cannot be done and bans that y cannot do x are unidiomatic formulations?

为什么 the negative cannot after bans is illogical?

ban 本身含已经有否定的意思,an official order that prevents something from being used or done
ban on
a total ban on cigarette advertising
lift/impose a ban: a call to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military

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