885 补充题50/Out of every four, three

sbbi

50.    Three out of every four automobile owners in the United States also own a bicycle.
(A) Three out of every four automobile owners in the United States also own a bicycle.
(B) Out of every four, three automobile owners in the United States also owns a bicycle.
(C) Bicycles are owned by three out of every four owners of automobiles in the United States.
(D) In the United States, three out of every four automobile owners owns bicycles.
(E) Out of every four owners of automobiles in the United States, bicycles are also owned by three

ANSWER A.同意.请问B如果也用OWN的话是对的么?我见过:
Of the nine planets, only one ......

gemj

根据OG的说法，B不好
In B, Out of every four, three is unidiomatic.

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-10-16 20:28:08编辑过]

sbbi

gemj, so what do you think of "Of the nine planets, only one... "?

gemj

我觉得这样可以。只是感觉，没有考证。

sbbi

考完了赶快那你的绝学给我们旁证博引吧... TONS OF QUESTIONS!!!

gemj

Of the nine planets, only one... 的说法是可以接受的.
但没有类似于Out of every four, three... 的说法.

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Of the two heat exchangers, one is located inside, and the other one outside the house, so each is in contact with a different body of air: room air and outside air, respectively.

Of the thousands of specimens of meteorites found on Earth and known to science, only about 100 are igneous; that is, they have undergone melting by volcanic action at some time since the planets were first formed.

Of the 35 brachiopod species found in the chalk, only 6 survived in the clay, all of them generalists.

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-10-18 20:10:45编辑过]

hodgechen

upo

dreadpower

又学到一个用法

心晴

是不是Out of the four, three... 就对了？看不太明白的说。

dccndmr

"number1 out of every number2" is an idiomatic expression, and "number1 in every number2" is the similar.