这题虽然用无关选项排除可以选定D,但是对于D的support作用实在是搞不懂 OG的解释是The passage points out that teh changes in copyists indicates that something prevented the first three copyists from completing the work. The passage then identifies this disruptive factor as the plague of 1148, thus dating the production of the Codex. The question asks you to identify information that would support this dating. Choice D is the best answer because if there had been other outbreaks of plague in the relevant period, one of these, instead of the plague of 1148, might have disrupted the manuscript's production. This information therefore supports the hypothesis. 偶不明白,本来就是由四个人完成,如果不算每个人还可以中断抄写后再继续的,至少有三个中断,那么如果有一场瘟疫在1147年发生好了,把第三个人的抄写中断了,第四个人在1148年继续写也应该符合逻辑的。如果是这样,这CB到底算抄于1148年还是之前呢? 再说按照OG的意思,1148年发生瘟疫,1148年写完书,本身说明有瘟疫也可以继续抄的。 |