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花了一个小时才看完了ron对这题的解释：
本题的关键点是平行：the EXTREMELY strong logical parallelism between '42 times their pay' and '419 times the pay of blue-collar workers' -- compels the pronoun and antecedent to be parallel as well.
A 错误 'the ratio of 42 times' is redundant，可以去掉the ratio of；42 times后要加something。
补充：percentages可以单独用(只要句子其他地方明确说这个percentage指的是什么).
for instance, you can say "80% of the X's are male, up from 67% five years ago". here, the second percentage is understood to be also "of the X's".
B 问题出在that compares to...
"that compares to..." is unidiomatic; you want "(as) compared to/with".
it IS possible to use "compares" as a stand alone verb, but i'm pretty sure you can't do so unless you attach an adjective, such as "favorably", to it:
this performance compares favorably to last week's. --> i.e., it's better
this phrase doesn't convey the right meaning. if we state that "X compares to Y", then we're saying that X and Y are, in some way, close to each other.
e.g., You're the only person I know whose public speaking ability compares to Elena's.
--> elena is a really good speaker. you are (almost) as good as she is.
in the sentence at hand, this is of course not the point. in fact, the point is pretty much exactly the opposite--that the CEO pay is so far away from the blue-collar pay that it's just ridiculous.
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