[求助]OG43的疑问

cilia

43. In the minds of many people living in England, before Australia was Australia, it was the antipodes, the opposite pole to civilization, an obscure and unimagin­able place that was considered the end of the world.

(A)      before Australia was Australia, it was the antipodes

(B)       before there was Australia, it was the antipodes

(C)      it was the antipodes that was Australia

(D)      Australia was what was the antipodes

(E)       Australia was what had been known as the antipodes

 

 

og关于e选项错误的解释： E similarly distorts the original meaning, and the past perfect had been is inconsistent with the past tense used to establish a time frame for the rest of the sentence.

 

 

我觉得Australia过去被认为是antipodes，发生在was之前，用过去完成时，为什么不对呢？

Zeldaw

 before Australia was Australia我当这个是固定用法

NN来解释一下