recent, extended sales slump

ashbury

很多人都看過以下的問題, 然後很多人都知道答案是A...可是我還是認為OG的解釋用 recent (adj) 去修飾 整個  "extended sales slump" 有點奇怪..... 上網找了找..結果找到1989年的原文... 鬧了半天原來有個 ","在recent 和 extended 中間... -_-

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEEDC1731F93AA35755C0A96F948260
大家怎麼看?


Reporting that one of its many problems had been the recent
extended sales slump in women’s apparel, the seven-store retailer said
it would start a three-month liquidation sale in all of its stores.

    

(A) its many problems had been the recent

(B) its many problems has been the recently

(C) its many problems is the recently

(D) their many problems is the recent

(E) their many problems had been the recent

well4eva

我觉得有逗号和没有逗号，句子都对，只是强调的东西不同。有了逗号,recent和extended就是平衡关系了。如果作者强调最近的一次，是不需要逗号的。如果原文短语是first extended sales slump你可能就不觉得奇怪了，因为你见得比较多，而first和recent的词形在这里都是一样的。 

ashbury

謝了謝了.. 果然清楚了不少....