救急啊！

jackabigail

In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vint­ners have cut prices; their wines have been priced to sell. and they are.
    

(A)  have been priced to sell, and they are
                

(B)  are priced to sell, and they have
                    

(C)  are priced to sell, and they do
                    

(D)  are being priced to sell, and have

(E)   had been priced to sell, and they have
                    

答案是C。这句话什么意思啊？怎么个对称法啊？and前面是被动，后面do这也叫对称？

cestmoilance

My two cents:

The first part "In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut prices;" means

in order to reduce inventories, vintners have cut prices

second part "their wines are priced to sell, and they do" means

vintners "set the wines' price at a competitive level try to" (the meaning of the idiom 'priced to sell') reduce the inventory. The price NOW is at a competitive level, which is a result of "have cut". and vinters NOW DO (sell their wines).

So, it is trying to say as a result of the cut, the price are now at a competitive level and vinters do reduce the inventory.

jackabigail

hi,我意思明白了！但是怎么解释对称呢？

cestmoilance

他们的葡萄酒在以一个有竞争力的价格销售, 并且这个策略获得了效果.这两个部分相对于前半句话是同时出现的结果.两个结果对称.my two cents

smiletiger53

do 对应的是reduce their inventories

rock19840717

注意they和their是指代同一对象的，their特意没在划线范围内。这样再看就比较好理解，这是今天我再做这题时新发现的，原来也觉得不顺，LZ可做参考