请教OG12-76

冰雨自由

谢谢大家了，我再体会体会

sprins

以下是引用冰雨自由在2009/8/23 9:21:00的发言：

你是什么时候艘的？我昨天才问的，应该怎么改题号？

大概是你发之前吧

改题号可以点每一楼下方的编辑

luul65

如果appear不是出现的意思
那么就有可能是“似乎”appear to be
翻译如下：（拥有）强壮的身体结合高智力，尼安德特人似乎都配备一种面临了对任何障碍他们前进道路的环境的能力【= =意会一下！】，但他们在突然消失在旧石器时期显示，一些无法适应环境的变化导致它们灭绝。

淡水河边

恩，这道题目我看的时候也纠结了一下，后来觉得在GMAT的SC中其实还是很关注逻辑（我常常喜欢叫它关系）的，这里用了一个but，说明是转折关系，那前后两个主句的动词appear 和 indicate 就是同一个层面（就是前面TX说的逻辑层次==我的词汇量啊...）上的。所以说在做题目的时候一定要关注表示关系（平行、转折、因果）的词。

这是我的一点看法，不知道对不对，希望NN指正~~~

淡水河边

up一下，等指正~~·

LifeCreator

网上看到RON大神的回复 转贴一下

this isn't a present perfect construction, because it's actually an infinitive.
i.e., it's not "they have been equipped"; it's "they appear TO HAVE been equipped".

in any case, you should probably just memorize this construction as a one-off idiomatic structure. if you say "they seemed/appeared to...", then, no matter how remote the event is (in time), you use this construction.

for instance:
it seems that the students cheated on the exam
(normal past tense in this construction)
but...
the students seem to have cheated on the exam
(not here)

i don't really have a good explanation for this, other than "i'm a writer with a firm command of formal english, and i know that it is so" and "you should just think of it as an idiom". sorry i can't do better than that.

in any case, though, you DO have to use an infinitive after "appear" or "seem" in this sort of construction. and if you think about it, this is as past-tense as an infinitive can get. so that's why you have to use it.

billxxyy

appear 是“显示出”的意思，不是出现的意思。以前我一直以为是Neanderthals人的出现，这样理解的话会容易造成错误，以为要用过去式。

ARG

非常感谢

dongtingz

我看到og原话说：because Neanderthals "disappeared", the verb describing their apparent abilities cannot be present tense, so as equipped must be changed to to have been equipped.  这句话难道不是在说这里应该用完成时嘛？ 我看到前面大神说这边是不定式，不是完成时。我有点迷惑。求解答

dongtingz

In English, we have two infinitive tenses: the present infinitive (TO + VERB) and the perfect infinitive (TO + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE).

The present infinitive expresses CONTEMPORANEOUS action (an action happening AT THE SAME TIME as the main action):
John IS proud TO BE president.
Here, John IS proud (in the present) TO BE president (also in the present).       这是我后来看到的。。还是有点晕