og-263-不明白

Across

263. In A.D. 391, resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, later generations lost all but the Iliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides.

(A) resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria,

(B) the destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and

(C) because of the result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,

(D) as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,

(E) Alexandria’s largest library of the ancient world was destroyed, and the result was


D, the best choice, 这个没问题


问题是我加亮的部分之间的关系: most of and dozens of是并列于all呐还是从属于all but....多谢多谢

Snazzy

they are parallel to each other.

all but (除了)

Across

查字典了又朗读十遍: 好像脑子清楚了


all but-=almost completely ch称度大于most


就是递减的程度...并列的...


    

Across

The structure of E illogically suggests that there was more than one largest library of the ancient world and that only Alexandria’s was destroyed.


谢谢snazzy, 可是这个句子又是怎么讲呐??? 是不是因为e把原来那个the给扔了...???

Snazzy

According
to this sentence, ''the largest library of the ancient world" is
插入语，meaning the destroied library of Alex. is the largest of teh
ancient world.

but in E,     it only modifies Alex. 缩小了范围

Across

以下是引用Snazzy在2004-3-5 5:56:00的发言：
According to this sentence, ''the largest library of the ancient world" is 插入语，meaning the destroied library of Alex. is the largest of teh ancient world.
but in E,     it only modifies Alex. 缩小了范围

finally I see some chinese from you.


    谢谢snazzy