OG 71

cw_chan

Some communities in Florida are populated almost exclusively by retired people and contain few, if any families with small children. Yet these communities are home to thriving businesses specializing in the rental of furniture for infants and small children.

Which of the following, if true, best reconciles the seeming discrepancy described above?

A. The businesses specializing in the rental of children's furniture buy their furniture from distrutors outside of Florida.

B. The few children who do reside in these communities all know each other and often make overnight visit to one another's home.

C. Many residents of these communities who move frequently prefer renting their furniture to buying it outright.

D. Many residents of these communities must provide for the needs of visiting grandchildren several weeks a year.

E. Children's furniture available for rental is of the same quality as that available for sale in the store.

请问该社区主要是退休人员 还是 almost exclusively 退休人员. 

 若almost exclusively 退休人员, 则该社区只包括少量有小孩的家庭.  这样的家庭怎能会有visiting grandchildren. 因为我将 almost exclysively 理解为本排除了retired people.

并且没找到关于 OG 71 的任何提问, 怪的很!

cw_chan

自己 up

cw_chan

怎样理解almost exclusively .

FionaLiang

exclusively    adv.排外地, 专有地

Some communities in Florida are populated almost exclusively by retired people and contain few, if any families with small children.

住的基本上都是退休了的人，几乎没有小孩

cw_chan

Some communities in Florida are populated almost exclusively by retired people and contain few, if any families with small children.

若把exclusively拿下, 我同意住的基本上都是退休了的人. 很小儿科的问题.能否解释exclusively    adv.排外地修饰那一个.

谢谢.

cw_chan

up.

nettrinity

是选D嘛？

cw_chan

选D.但我不理解如下翻译:

Some communities in Florida are populated almost exclusively by retired people .

在Florida的一些社区充斥着非退休人员, 还是在Florida的一些社区充斥着退休人员?

exclusively    adv.排外地, 专有地 是两个矛盾的解释.

OG-194 同样存在  Major impediment to wide acceptance of electric vehicles even on the part of people who use their cars almost exclusively for commuting is the inability to use electric vehicles for occasional extended trips. 是指car 专为上下班, 还是专不为上下班?

不知是否说清楚了?

谢谢.

jerry880

Exclusively refers to something that is for a specific group or a type of people.

排他的指的是排exclusively之后的名词之外的。exclusively by A指的就是排除非A,即只包括A。你把它简单的理解为“仅仅为”就理解了。比如下例：

This sample room is exclusively for women.
这试衣室仅供妇女使用。

cw_chan

谢谢.看样子还得过词汇关.