OG12-SC72

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More and more in recent years, cities are stressing
the arts as a means to greater economic development
and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities,
despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal
support.
(A) to greater economic development and investing
(B) to greater development economically and
investing
(C) of greater economic development and invest
(D) of greater development economically and invest
(E) for greater economic development and the
investment of

答案说 as a means to greater economic development是as a method for achieving greater economic development.而as a means of ...的话就感觉像stressing the arts is a kind of greater economic development.

请位各位同学们，as a means to +noun是实现这个noun的方法，as a means of + noun.是做为这个noun的一种．

我怎么在哪个字典里也没看到这种解释呢？

大家对这题是怎么理解的呢？

咖啡糖

顶一下。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

咖啡糖

再顶一下.......

poirotsky

我也没查到确切的解释，帮顶

skyzhang

Sending EMS is a means to deliver the file to you. - 发快递是给你文件的一种方式

Sending EMS is a means of delivery. - 发快递是一种运送方式

感觉这种差异并不是来源于means to / means of.  而是来源于to / of 的差异。

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以下是引用skyzhang在2009/9/9 13:44:00的发言：

Sending EMS is a means to deliver the file to you. - 发快递是给你文件的一种方式

Sending EMS is a means of delivery. - 发快递是一种运送方式

感觉这种差异并不是来源于means to / means of.  而是来源于to / of 的差异。

这么一说我 好像明白了!!!!!谢谢skyzhang 我觉得有道理!

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以下是引用poirotsky在2009/9/9 13:23:00的发言：
我也没查到确切的解释，帮顶

也谢谢这位同学!!!!!!

咖啡糖

感觉就像of是抽象一些,而to是指更具体的做什么...

xibao

这道题为什么不能 are stressing 和 invest平行呢？？

FactOrFiction

形式上不对称. 应该是are stressing和are investing平行, 后面的are省略了.

关于means of和means to, OG上解释了一大堆, 我也没怎么看懂, 而且似乎和Longman也有差别.