大全中补充250中的216

liuxuejunjx

216.    
At the beginning of the year, the city allocated $150 million to cover the increase in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations with the municipal labor unions.
(A) increase in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations
(B) increased wages it expected to approve from negotiations
(C) increasing wages expected to be approved as a result of negotiating
(D) negotiated increases in wages it expected to approve
(E) increases expected to be approved in wages from negotiating
答案未A
但是that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations这个从句修饰的又是词呢，从语法看应该是wage，但是我觉得修饰increased wages将更为合理，所以选择了B

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solome

increase in wages 是更清晰的表达，而且从句中使用的是it expected 。

lilyhuang

about choice B, 因为需要appove is increase in wages 这件事，而不是increased wages.可以比较一下它们的意思, 就明白了.

一个小的疑问，"as a result of negotiations with the municipal labor unions" 是修饰整个句子，还是修饰"it expected to approve "?

solome

以下是引用lilyhuang在2003-12-3 16:55:00的发言：
about choice B, 因为需要appove is increase in wages 这件事，而不是increased wages.可以比较一下它们的意思, 就明白了.

一个小的疑问，"as a result of negotiations with the municipal labor unions" 是修饰整个句子，还是修饰"it expected to approve "?

是修饰从句的吧

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-12-3 17:27:43编辑过]

lilyhuang

对整个句子还是有点糊涂，it指代什么？笨笨的问.

crusaders

At the beginning of the year, the city allocated $150 million to cover the increase in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations with the municipal labor unions.

the word "COVER" here means "to have enough money to pay for sth",
and "it" here refers to "the increase in wages "
So the $150 million paied by the city is not for "the increased wages" but for "the increase in wages".  


  

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-12-3 20:34:52编辑过]

lilyhuang

有点意思, 还有其它的看法吗？

smartj

原句的意思是：支付“要增加”的那部分工资，
(B) increased wages 的意思是“被增加后的工资”，显然意思不对。

bluestone1

it 指代 city ，因为 city expected, 而 (the increase in wages)  is expected

（the increase in wages） that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations  也即

the city  expected to approve （the increase in wages）as a result of negotiations  

lilyhuang

agree with bluestonel.