than结构的使用差异比较GWD1-Q16；GWD3-Q30

dalphia

同名同物和同名异物的区别只体现在指代词it/they vs. that/those的区分上
如果不用代词用名词，那逻辑关系上要比代词清晰多了，同名同物、同名异物、异名异物 etc.都可以

rain0216

我把答案看错了 答案是C，这题我自己也纳闷了好久，哎~不好意思，第一次发帖就犯了粗心的毛病~~

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yidiyuehan

Today’s
technology allows manufacturers to make small cars more fuel-efficient now
than at any time in their production history.

    

A.
small cars more fuel-efficient now than at any time in their

    

B.
small cars that are more fuel-efficient than they were at any time in their

    

C.
small cars that are more fuel-efficient than those at any other time in

    

D.
more fuel-efficient small cars than those at any other time in their

    

E. more fuel-efficient small cars now than at any time in

我刚开始也是选E， 不过感觉E 好像有歧义，more 可以修饰fuel-efficient 也可以修饰cars...

wwk_lion

补充一个例子

Employment costs rose 2.8 percent in the 12 months that ended in September, slightly less than
they did in the year that ended in the previous quarter.

(A) less than they did
(B) less than it did
(C) less than they were
(D) lower than
(E) lower than they were  

这个答案是A，我想是因为前后两者比较的是动作而不只是名词，所以需要重新they did

午夜精灵Ying

呼唤NN来回答一下这个问题哇

午夜精灵Ying

wwk_lion 发表于 2012-10-3 19:56
补充一个例子Employment costs rose 2.8 percent in the 12 months that ended in September, slightly les ...

可不可以这样理解，Cars 是有生命周期的，而proportion呢 ，它是一个动态的数据系列，是一直存在不会消亡的，只是各个时间点的数值不一样罢了

槁项黄榆

第一个问题Ron 在曼哈顿里是这样解释的
there's ellipsis here. the understood comparison is a repeated instance of "proportion".
in contexts in which you would repeat a noun, you don't have to include the repeated noun; you may merely imply it. this is known as ellipsis.

for instance:
this year's heavyweight champion is shorter than last year's.
here, the second half of the comparison is clearly "last year's heavyweight champion", but you don't have to say "heavyweight champion" again.

前文提到的noun可以省略，但不意味着你一定要省略。不省略也可以是正确的。
第二题的e选项错误是因为redundant，前文已经提到today，就不用now 了。