OG-136. Not understand the explanation to C. tks!

siebel

136. Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries.
A.    it is so debilitating that it has become an economic
B.    it is of such debilitation, it has become an economical
C.    so debilitating is it as to become an economic
D.    such is its debilitation, it becomes an economical
E.    there is so much debilitation that it has become an economical
Choice A is best: is links the noun schistosomiasis with its modifier, debilitating, and so debilitating that idiomatically introduces a clause that provides a further explanation of debilitating. Choices B, D, and E produce awkward, wordy, imprecise, or unidiomatic phrases by substituting the noun debilitation for the modifier debilitating. Choices B and D fail to introduce the explanatory clause with that, and C uses an awkward and wordy construction in place of a that... clause. Finally, B, D, and E wrongly use economical instead of economic to mean "pertaining to the economy."

hexin

OG的解释是说C用了一种笨拙的表达方式，而不是用一个that从句。其实是指C用了so ...as to...+倒装。本来是： it is so debilitating as to....确实没有A的so...that...简洁。

1stzhang

这个题目还是从动词的合理的发出者来理解
（A）become的发出者是明确的是it
但是c答案的动词发出者是不明确的。so as to这个词组的用法相当灵活。我们可以认为它的发出是it也可以认为是so debilitating is it 这件事情所以回产生歧义。所以c不好。

Robin

倒装有强调作用，改变了原句侧重点。因此C不好.

1stzhang

这个倒装的加强作用，我个人认为在这里用不上的。
改变原文这个说法，我认为是不太合适的，原文本来就是错的，是否违背原文不是一条原则。

joywzy

这题我也是不明白。C，A都可以。

jacy

我认为：
因为全句是以although引导的从句，划线部分是主句。而且是although从句在前，
所以在主句位置上不能用倒装。c不对。

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-4-27 14:09:58编辑过]

hexin

我认为OG的解释很明确，只是指出c句子没有A的so...that...简洁，并没有提出其他错误。

siebel

谢谢各位！

rebuscat

siebel DD, 我的观点是og 对c的错误分析不对，因为它的错误不是在用so...as to代替that clause 只是累赘，而是在于在although引导的主从复合句中，主句用倒装是不合适，甚至是unidiomatic 的。