[求助]请教大全2

dreadpower

2.A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.
(A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump
(B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping
(C) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump
(E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

    答案是A,没问题.
    问题是: B,C中the phosphate amount 和the amount of phosphates差异在那里呢??为什么the phosphate amount不好呢???

    其次E中如果将for dumping改为to dump是否可以接受呢?? 就是说into the Great Lakes 优先修饰municipalities，但是是否可以理解为跳跃修饰???

solome

the phosphate amount 这种修饰是不清晰的，ETS一象是这样认为的，比如说the
population change就不行，the change in population是可以的

E就是该了也是修饰不清，而且是被动的表达，主动比较好

dreadpower

谢谢solome的解答, 你能将the phosphate amount 这种修饰是不清晰归类??

     归结为一种错误, 应该是什么呢??

solome

不知道是不是应该叫做名词词组的中心词问题，anyway,我不清楚应该叫成什么错误呢：）

dreadpower

我昨天晚上回去琢磨了,可能是这样,不知道对不对:

       要表示A的B的时候，不能直接用名词A+名词B表达， 应该是 B 介词 A

       就是说英语表示“的”， 不能名词连用

       比如这里：the phosphate amount 意思上是说磷的量，就该表达为the amount of phosphates

        再比如the population change就不行，应该是the change in population

       SOLOME还能找到类似的例子吗？？能否验证一下我的解释对不对？？

g4yLee

这些都是习惯用法啊,为什么要去钻这些呢.英语里名词修饰名词是不多,但不是绝对没有(下次我找给你看,现在想不起来,呵).gmat里一般是避免名词修饰名词的,特别是老长老长的东西.the phosphate amount ,the population change,你觉得看的顺眼吗?对the population change有疑问还可以理解,为什么对the amount of...也要怀疑呢.这个句子请注意后面从句是修饰什么,bc等于是修饰amount了.

dreadpower

极度感谢g4yLee，很有道理

     其实我也有疑虑，名词修饰名词多的就是，所以想求证，到底在什么情

     况下名词修饰名词可行，什么时候不可行？？SOLOME能解答吗？？YZYINYIN怎么看？？

Sophiallw

根据 jnlvo版版的最新大全注释,此题选D,

A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.

(A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump

(B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping

(C) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump

(D) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump

(E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

OG-11^th的答案是D

An agreement that occurred in 1972 is correctly described with the past tens verb reduced.Since the dumping continues into the present, the past perfect verb had been allowed should instead be the present are allowed.

A Had been allowed should be are allowed.

B The phosphbates amount should be the amount of phosphates;the meaning of the sentence is changed by the omission of any form of allow.

C The present tense reduces should be the past tense reduced;the phosphate amount should be the amount of phosphates;have been allowed should be are allowed

D Correct.The past tense reduced is correctly used in this sentence to describe a past action,and the present tense are allowed is used to describle the present situation.

E The present tense reduces should be the past tense redueced;allowed for dumping is an incorrect idiom;allowed for dumping by municipalities is awkward

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-12-15 16:36:48编辑过]

Sophiallw

但是上面这一说我反倒就不明白了

一个1972年的agreement缩减了municipalities had been allowed to dump的 amount of phosphates.这个agreement是一个发生在过去的事情,那么这个被政府允许dump的phosphates就应是一个发生在agreement之前并持续到agreement出台的事情,理应是过去的过去,所以用过去完成时.

但是现在这个新的解释是说Since the dumping continues into the present, the past perfect verb had been allowed should instead be the present are allowed.为什么说这个dumping是一个持续到现在的动作呢?

请NN解答!!!

Sophiallw

以下是引用hitler999在2005-7-14 13:09:00的发言：

XDF老师的意思是：只要是政府法令，哪怕是1279年的，也要用现在时，这条规律是用现在时的三条规律之一，还有两条是：客观事实（比如地球绕太阳转）；科研成果或统计资料。

这种规律正确吗？谢谢

是因为上面这个道理吗?

以下是引用andrew_li在2005-7-15 23:46:00的发言：

The sentence is talking about the effect of the agreement but not its content.

那么究竟作何解释?