难据分析

Snazzy

34.    Only when a system possesses natural or artificial boundaries that associate the water within it the hydrologic cycle may the entire system properly be termed hydrogeologic.

what's 'it' for here?  and  'within'? thanks

carawayt

within it应该指的是wihin the hydrologic cycle吧？

不知对不对？

dawnroad

以下是引用Snazzy在2004-2-5 0:37:00的发言：
34. Only when a system possesses natural or artificial boundaries that associate the water within it the hydrologic cycle may the entire system properly be termed hydrogeologic.

what's 'it' for here?  and  'within'? thanks

这段话中少打了一个with，所以造成大家理解困难
that associate the water within it with the hydrologic cycle
主干：associate the water with the hydrologic cycle
这样 it 就清楚了，指的是a system
within it 修饰the water

Snazzy

agreed.

here is another one:

63.    Granted that the presence　of these elements need not argue an　authorial awareness of novelistic　construction comparable to that of Henry James， their presence does encourage attempts to unify the novel’s　heterogeneous parts

'that', i think, should refer to 'novelistic construction', but the chinese translation confused me. what do u think

bon

I think it should be "awareness of novelistic construction"

雪落无声

以下是引用bon在2004-2-11 10:29:00的发言：
I    think    it    should    be    "awareness    of    novelistic    construction"

agree,awareness是A of B 的中心词

Snazzy

81、 The
broad language of the amendment strongly suggests that its framers were
proposing to write into the Constitution not a laundry list of specific     civil rights but a principle of equal
citizenship that forbids organized society from treating any individual as a
member of an inferior class.

-----> this is the explanation:

The broad language of the mendment strongly
suggests that its framers were proposing to write not a laundry list of
specific civil rights but a principle of equal citizenship that forbids
organized society from treating any individuall as a member of an inferior
class into the Constitution.

-------> here after is my version:




The broad language of the mendment strongly
suggests that its framers were proposing to write not a laundry list of
specific civil rights but a principle of equal citizenship into the Constitution that forbids
organized society from treating any individuall as a member of an inferior
class.