GWD-29-Q29 这道题灰常纠结

sunjin1988

GWD-29-Q29

                        
                        
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of Portugal’s 250,000 university students boycotted classes in a
one-day strike to protest a law that requires them to contribute $330 a
year toward the cost of higher education, previously paying $7 per year.

A.        year toward the cost of higher education, previously paying $7 per year

B.        year toward the cost of higher education, for which was previously paid $7 per year

C.        year, compared to the previously $7 per year, toward the cost of higher education

D.        year toward the cost of higher education, instead of the $7 per year required previously

E.        year as opposed to the $7 per year required previously for the cost of higher education
这题选D 请问BC错在哪里？？？

gudjohnssen

A) "previously paying $7 per year" should refer to the students, which would make it a noun modifier, which is required to be placed next to the noun it modifies. It isn't. Incorrect.

B) this time the phrase isn't even clear - "for which was previously paid" makes no sense

C) "previously" is an adverb and should refer to a verb, but $7 is a noun - you'd need the adjective "previous" here. And really you'd want to say something like "compared to the previous requirement of $7 per year"

D) I'm not a huge fan of this source. I assume the reason to eliminate this one is non-specification that the $7 per year required previously was specifically required for higher education. But I don't think the real test would make this the only distinction. They might also try to claim something's wrong with "instead of" (rather than "as opposed to" in answer E), but instead of can properly refer to a noun, as it does here... so it's fine.

E) See above.

                                                                                       Quoted from Stacey
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C错在previously副词修饰名词$7。

-- by 会员 KimiHana (2010/7/31 23:44:38)

看这个关于C的解释应该是最贴切的了，previous应该修饰一个副词而不是一个名词短语

sunjin1988

sunjin1988

C compared 是不是引起歧义了指代了year?

兔子等着瞧

我想知道B为什么不对

sunjin1988

顶顶

serendipityh

Most
of Portugal’s 250,000 university students boycotted classes in a
one-day strike to protest a law that requires them to contribute $330 a
year toward the cost of higher education, previously paying $7 per year.

A.        year toward the cost of higher education, previously paying $7 per year

B.        year toward the cost of higher education, for which was previously paid $7 per year

C.        year, compared to the previously $7 per year, toward the cost of higher education

D.        year toward the cost of higher education, instead of the $7 per year required previously

E.        year as opposed to the $7 per year required previously for the cost of higher education
B.应该是$7 per year was paid for higher education, B意思扭曲
C compared 就近修饰year, 而且, compared to 需要有个名词可以和后面的the $7 per year
举个例子: Compared to our small flat, Bill's house seemed like a palace
但是C 相比较的的东西在句子中间堵着. 而且人家是the +$7 per year
还有就是C的意思不对, 和the $7 per year比, $330 a
year怎么怎么样. 让我纳闷!!!
E

sunjin1988

楼上谢谢  C错还应该是 compare to是比喻的意思吧 ？？？

serendipityh

你的意思是 应该用compare with 吗? 我做过一些题, 发现用to 有少少少数情况下也对, 要是用to的话发现明显翻译错误, 就不应该用,
看一下下面的例子, 比较一下, 对你有启发没? 我在这方面是根据具体的题具体分析. 所以做这个题时, 我找了其他方面的错误排出的.
绝大多数情况下还是用with吧!!!
compared to/with something
used when considering the size, quality, or amount of something in relation to something similar
a 20% reduction in burglary compared with last year
Compared to our small flat, Bill's house seemed like a palace.

sunjin1988

哦了解了  谢谢MM指点

程喷喷

还是不明白~~~~~~~~~
compare to有啥问题啊~~~~