请教大全336题，help和平行

fdkbaby

336、    Ideally, the professional career diplomat should help in the ongoing maintenance of an effective American foreign policy despite changes in administration.
(A) in the ongoing maintenance of
(B) in the maintaining of
(C) maintain
(D) to maintain and continue
(E) the maintenance of

参考答案C
我的思路：
1、    help的用法：
help sb.
help sb. with sth.
help sb. to do sth.
help do sth.
2、    根据help的用法排除A、B和D
3、    我认为C和E的意思是一样的，然后我根据despite changes in administration来选择E，因为我认为这里用名词更为体现平行的原则。

不知道各位是如何判断的？为什么这里要用C，而不是E呢？

gemj

help something －－ along phrasal verb
to make a process or activity happen more quickly or easily
She asked a few questions to help the conversation along.

不过感觉还是没有用help do sth顺口。这里用名词觉得别扭。
But the thriller element does no damage to the message and helps the story along for even the most committed viewer.

Every building is different, so when you start a new building the erector actually helps you along.

I helped this along by taking some Flocor from an established filter and placing it in the vat filter.

I mean leadership in the way that they understand what to do in a close game and maybe help us along.

The other key characteristic of the even-toed ungulates that would have helped this process along is the structure of the feet.

The priesthood built itself and if we help it along we are only following the line of least resistance.

To help the doggies along, Mercer sounds a horn that emits an ear-piercing wail from his plane.

To help things along we provide our usual framework of social activities, sharing costs between survivors.

help something后面要跟副词 along。

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-11-20 1:19:39编辑过]

fdkbaby

照这么说就更应该是maintenance而不是maintain了。

其实如果不是做的时候多想了一下，我就选C了。但是想到变态ets的平行原理，我就摇摆了一下。

znprc

你不觉得HELP MAINTAIN比HELP THE MAINTENANCE OF简练吗?

fdkbaby

那么简练和平行两种应该怎样权衡呢？

可能是我想多了。鬼ets的规矩让我有点神经质。

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-11-21 21:59:06编辑过]

znprc

despite 并不提示要使用平行结构啊。。。