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hpp920

记得tianwan有个贴子写了关于这个问题, 很棒, 你查查.

xionghuixh

UP!!!

xionghuixh

UP

xionghuixh

In B, the structure of noted... that the elephant, giving rides ..., had been earning falsely implies that the reader already knows about the elephant--that is, that the existence of this particular elephant is not new information.

这到底是什么意思??

hougang

我的理解是

题目强调那头可以give rides to children的大象才能赚到和那个sociologist一样多的东西。

但是如果用had been的话，意思是说在大象能够give rides to children以前，它就能够赚到和sociologist一样多的东西。这样的话就会产生逻辑错误。所以b答案是错误的。

不知道理解对不对，请nn指教。

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-11-14 17:01:32编辑过]

我爱欧洲

以下是引用绿水长流在2004-5-29 5:43:00的发言：

能问一下句子重心怎样改变的吗？

还有og的解释：Choice C may be faulted for distortion of meaning and diminished clarity because it suggests that the point of Wootton's example was the elephant's very existence; comparative earnings are presented (after and) as incidental detail  什么意思吖？

请指教，谢谢

C说W的例子的重点是大象的存在，比较收入只是附带的细节。