prep 2-136

aeoluseros

136. (31965-!-item-!-188;#058&006588)
The computer company reported strong second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street's
estimates and announced the first in a series of price cuts intended to increase sales further.

(A) The computer company reported strong second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street's
estimates and announced the first in a series of price cuts intended to increase sales further.

(A) The computer company reported strong second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street's
estimates and announced the first in a series of price cuts intended to increase sales further.

(B) The report of the computer company showed strong second-quarter earnings, surpassing Wall
Street's estimates, and they announced the first in a series of price cuts that they intend to increase
sales further.

(C) Surpassing Wall Street's estimates, the report of the computer company showed strong
second-quarter earnings, and, for the purpose of increasing sales further, they announced the first
in a series of price cuts.

(D) The computer company reported strong second-quarter earnings, while announcing the first in
a series of price cuts for the purpose of increasing sales further that surpass Wall Street's
estimates.

(E) The computer company, surpassing Wall Street's estimates, reported strong second-quarter
earnings, while announcing that to increase sales further, there would be the first in a series of price
cuts.

answer is A.

脑子糊涂了。。。困。不过先问了再说...

A里面的and announced是不是可以换做while announcing的形式（或许句子结构需要做调整），虽然感觉变成了ing形式，像成为了伴随关系，但是除了忠实原句，还有其他理由不用while announcing吗？

D里面的for the purpose of doing sth.是不是可以完全替换intended to do？

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-10-12 18:07:19编辑过]

AlienX

while主要用來強調兩個action同時進行, 好像沒必要強調report跟announce是同時進行.
intended to do來代for the purpose of doing應該可以...

aeoluseros

以下是引用AlienX在2008-10-13 2:31:00的发言：
while主要用來強調兩個action同時進行, 好像沒必要強調report跟announce是同時進行.
intended to do來代for the purpose of doing應該可以...

make sense! 有点生疏语法了...

songlovegt

announced the first in a series of price cuts
the first 是作宾语吗？为什么语法注解上说 price cuts 是宾语?
如何翻译呢？

Mayanist

The computer company reported strong second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street's
estimates and announced the first in a series of price cuts intended to increase sales further.

计算机公司报告了超出抢街预测的第二季度收益，同时宣布了第一个旨在进一步增加销售额的系列销价活动

songlovegt

明白了多谢 Mayanist
the first (cut) in a series of price cuts

lcy19812000

看到这道题的A中 earnings that surpassed Wall Street's estimates and announced the first in a series of price cuts intended to increase sales further.我认为有语法上平行的歧义就排除了。

很郁闷，我不记得在OG或者Prep的其它题中存在这样的歧义，这道题怎么就可以呢？大家怎么看这个问题啊？

AlienX

SC其實還是在考邏輯...選best choice不是選perfect choice.
所以能絶對排除的只有用語法, 之後只能邏輯的比較

lcy19812000

以下是引用AlienX在2009-4-21 13:56:00的发言：
SC其實還是在考邏輯...選best choice不是選perfect choice.
所以能絶對排除的只有用語法, 之後只能邏輯的比較

版主说的我知道，事实上我也觉得此题肯定是A答案相对更好，只是郁闷有被ETS玩弄的感觉，说了这个不行、那个不行，最后的结果却是这个也行、那个也行，它告诉你说这就是逻辑，这就是相对较好！

考场上，在时间紧迫的情况下遇到这种题我可就不敢保证选得出相对正确的了，郁闷。

类似的题，OG、大全或Prep中大家还有遇到过其它例子么？

watergood

如果announced要和surpassed平行，那么需要补出that。也就是and是连接两个限定性定语从句that surpassed... 和 that surpassed...来修饰earnings的。但是A中没有and后没有that，表明and是并列reported和announced的。不会产生十分明显的歧义。