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remeo

以下是引用popularking在2003-9-28 17:40:00的发言：
something be priced to sell 意思是“价格合理”。

你的理解也有些偏差，此句的完整意思应该是

他们（酒商）的酒被公开定价销售，而且他们（酒）很有销路。

mzyzhu

以下是引用popularking在2003-9-28 17:40:00的发言：
something be priced to sell 意思是“价格合理”。

能否在一两个例子something is priced to sell.我在字典上没查到。

PopularKing

以下是引用mzyzhu在2003-9-28 17:48:00的发言：

能否在一两个例子something is priced to sell.我在字典上没查到。

老美的习惯用语，也就是“很便宜”的意思。
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/961201.asp?0bl=-0&cp1=1
http://denver.craigslist.org/car/16685229.html
http://seattle.craigslist.org/rfs/14484146.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/sys/16477187.html

gemj

以下是引用remeo在2003-9-28 17:08:00的发言：
39. For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
(A) a method to protect
(B) as a method protecting
(C) protecting
(D) as a protection of
(E) to protect
还有请看这道题A为什么不对，用一个概括性名词method做同位语这应该是ets的偏好所在。 Choices A and B awkwardly use the singular word method to refer to items of military equipment rather than to the use of such items.这句解释我看得也不是很懂，ets在此认为method是做解释性的同位语，而不是概括性的，为什么？

如果用概括性名词method做同位语，那么，前面应该要有一件事情可以概括为method。本题中没有，前面只是说：
animal-hide shields (with wooden frames) were essential items of military equipment
你怎么能说这是一种method呢？

同意mzyzhu的论述：

以下是引用mzyzhu在2003-9-28 17:20:00的发言：
首先ETS说，the animal hide and shield with wooden frame可以是一个item, 一个equipment,或者一个instrument, 单不是一个method.

其次，就算是后面的几个正确用法，ETS还认为不对。因为从逻辑上东东本身是不能提供保护的，只有using such kind of equipemnts才能保护战士。

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-9-28 18:08:21编辑过]

mzyzhu

10楼主，第二道gold rush拿到好像不是真题。而且你的提干出至少有一个打印错误slowlyk，所以我希望你能源题记5 个答案都打上。

关于OG的那题，首先我们不能说，应为某题用了同位语，所以这题用同位语也对。什么题用什么方式能够更加完整的表达意思是因题而异的。

首先说同位语A.按照ETS的逻辑，我也同意，虽然再考试是不可能想到这一点，在这一题里，method 根本无法指带the animal hide and the wooden frame.

即便是用了instruments这一ETS认可的同位语，他跟C相比，还是有差距.C的用法。句子,V+ing修饰句子忠德主语或者谓语。在该句就清晰的连接了the aminal hide and ...frame是用来proctecting 武士。你在体会一下。

remeo

谢谢gemj和mzyzhu!

mzyzhu

以下是引用PopularKing在2003-9-28 18:04:00的发言：

老美的习惯用语，也就是“很便宜”的意思。
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/961201.asp?0bl=-0&cp1=1
http://denver.craigslist.org/car/16685229.html
http://seattle.craigslist.org/rfs/14484146.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/sys/16477187.html

谢谢了， 又学了一个用法。

但是ETS的语法中，我们说something is sold.

13.    In June of 1987, The Bridge of Trinquetaille, Vincent van Gogh’s view of an iron bridge over the Rhone sold for $20.2 million and it was the second highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.
(A) Rhone sold for $20.2 million and it was
(B) Rhone, which sold for $20.2 million, was
(C) Rhone, was sold for $20.2 million,
(D) Rhone was sold for $20.2 million, being
(E) Rhone, sold for $20.2 million, and was

key c

During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding for instructional material, never were sold.
(A) funding for instructional material, never were
(B) funding for instructional material, never was
(C) funding, the instructional material, was never
(D) funding for instructional material, the products were never
(E) funding, they were never

key A

mianmian

Among the more effective kinds of publicity that publishers can get for a new book is to have excerpts of it published in a high-circulation magazine soon before the book is published. The benefits of such excerption include not only a sure increase in sales but also a fee paid by the magazine to the book’s publisher.
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above?
(A) The number of people for whom seeing an excerpt of a book in a magazine provides an adequate substitute for reading the whole book is smaller than the number for whom the excerpt stimulates a desire to read the book.
(B) Because the financial advantage of excerpting a new book in a magazine usually accrues to the book’s publisher, magazine editors are unwilling to publish excerpts from new books.
(C) In calculating the total number of copies that a book has sold, publishers include sales of copies of magazines that featured an excerpt of the book.
(D) The effectiveness of having excerpts of a book published in a magazine, measured in terms of increased sales of a book, is proportional to the circulation of the magazine in which the excerpts are published.
(E) Books that are suitable for excerpting in high-circulation magazines sell more copies than books that are not suitable for excerpting. publication
sell在这里有一种“达到某种销量”的意思，比如字典上有一句话：This record has sold over a million copies. 这里就不用be sold。
所以如果在卖葡萄酒那道题中，they是指葡萄酒的话（虽然我还是拿不准到底they 指什么），是可用do sell 的。

cranberry

还是比较费解，大家讨论了半天，好像都是在说自己的话，OG上那道卖酒的题目确实是两个代词指代的不一致，所以不禁对同一句子中同一代词必须指代同样的事情的金科玉律产生了怀疑。

leeon

卖酒的那道题还是不要在想的太深了，OG的解释版本都不一致。这道题本身值得商榷。