umm..倒不会产生那样的并列歧义,因为not...but...所对比的东西是很对称的,not A of B but C,那必然是A of B和C的并列。 不过我发现我当初在2楼的说法有误...我后来在另一个帖子里纠正过(http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&replyID=3156131&id=354330&skin=0): 大概意思我再说下: 如果选C,那么句子是: Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has argued that many biological traits are not the products of natural selection, favored because they enhance reproduction or survival, but simply random by-products of other evolutionary developments. 这样会造成一个歧义(ambiguous):好像整个“favored because they enhance reproduction or survival, but simply random by-products of other evolutionary developments”都在修饰“natural selection” 事实上只有“favored because they enhance reproduction or survival”才是对“natural selection”的解释,这里but是介词。 而把D代入: Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has argued that many biological traits are not the products of natural selection, favored because they enhance reproduction or survival, but are simply random by-products of other evolutionary developments. but不可能作介词修饰natural selection,因为它后面有了谓语动词,but只能作为连词,不修饰natural selection,而是跟are not the products of natural selection平行。 |