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maimai2009

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The first detailed study of magpie attacks in Australia indicates that (by the time they had reached adulthood, 98 percent of men and 75 percent of women born in the country have been attacked by the birds)
A. by the time they had reached adulthood, 98 percent of men and 75 percent of women born in the country have been attacked by the birds
B. by the time they reach adulthood, 98 percent of men and 75 percent of women, who were born in the country, had been attacked by the birds
C. by the time they reached adulthood, 98 percent of men and 75 percent of women born in the country had been attacked by the birds
D. 98 percent of men and 75 percent of women that were born in the country were attacked by the birds by the time they reach adulthood
E. 98 percent of men and 75 percent of women who were born in the country, by the time they reached adulthood had been attacked by the birds

这道题B和C中,B的who定语从句修饰和C的born分词修饰有什么区别呢?
还有,前面说的是women和men,那么从句和分词修饰的时候为什么不会造成歧义只修饰women或men,而是修饰women和men呢?

Mayanist

B从语法上看应该没错，但没有C简练。A的时态有问题。D中需要用who引导修饰人的定语从句，而且by the time they...变成修饰birds而改变句意。E中时间状语位置不好。

songlovegt

同问women and men修饰问题？

Mayanist

你会说 98 percent of men born in the country and 75 percent of women born in the country 吗？ : )

renehan

B的时态明显错了吧， reach...had been？

maimai2009

对，后来我看出来B用reach是错了,by the time...old应该是已经过去的事情了.
但是答案C后面修饰怎么解释呢?

Mayanist

哦，reach的时态错了，谢谢！

118lightyear

born in the country是分词修饰，

限定修饰women

who are born in the country

非限定定语从句，只那些出生在country的man和women

还有时态问题用一般现在

snowlemon

b和c的区别就在于b用的非限制性定从，c用的后置定语修饰men and women,就相当于是 men and women who were born...是限制性定从
非限制性定从在翻译上是可要，可不要，在这里显然翻译成在这个国家出生的多少男的和多少女的...比较好
还有从忠于原意a的角度，选c好
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fightbear

98 percent of men and 75 percent of women born in the country和98 percent of men and 75 percent of women who were born in the country意思一样的，但是98 percent of men and 75 percent of women, who were born in the country,是插入语，who就近修饰women