792 麻烦给解释一下

rt316

The odds are about 4 to 1 against surviving a takeover offer, and many business consultants therefore advise that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse to take calls from likely corporate raiders.fficeffice" />

(A) that a company’s first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse

(B) that a company’s first line of defense in eluding such offers be to refuse even

(C) a company defending itself against offers of this kind that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse

(D) companies which are defending themselves against such an offer that, as a first line of defense, they should even refuse（B）

(E) that the first line of defense for a company who is eluding offers like these is the refusal even


不懂句子什么意思，繁请给解释一下。至于选答案没有什么问题。

mariezhu

一家公司在回避这类offer时可以采用的第一招防范方式就是甚至拒绝接听来自类似公司骚扰者的电话。

rt316

但是OG的解释：Choice A is awkward and poorly phrased: these has no plural noun to which it can refer, and even should be placed immediately before to take calls, the phrase it modifies.  显然认为even是修饰to take calls，十分困惑这种修饰，麻烦给解释一下。

mariezhu

呵呵,英文是refuse even to take calls from sb, 中文的翻译就只能是甚至拒绝接听了,不然"拒绝甚至接听"似乎不怎么符合中文表达习惯...

even做副词修饰refuse和take可能会有如下差异:

如果refuse even to take calls,表明refuse一些事情,甚至是 take calls这种似乎无伤大雅的事情也不行,这里面有两个动词,even表示强烈/更进一步的语气

如果even refuse to take calls, even修饰refuse,但是前方没有动词对照可以使refuse产生更进一步的语气.

以上是个人临时想到的一些看法,还请指正

tianwan

these没有指代对象，odds？consultants? 而且，ETS认为these不可以单独指代，所以this和these单独出现都错。

even放在谁前面就修饰谁，A的even修饰refuse，这个refuse是理所当然的而不是甚至要refuse，也就是不需要甚至refuse，应该是refuse甚至to take。老美可能能看出来。

请指正。

rt316

以下是引用mariezhu在2004-6-10 0:08:00的发言：

呵呵,英文是refuse even to take calls from sb, 中文的翻译就只能是甚至拒绝接听了,不然"拒绝甚至接听"似乎不怎么符合中文表达习惯...

even做副词修饰refuse和take可能会有如下差异:

如果refuse even to take calls,表明refuse一些事情,甚至是 take calls这种似乎无伤大雅的事情也不行,这里面有两个动词,even表示强烈/更进一步的语气

如果even refuse to take calls, even修饰refuse,但是前方没有动词对照可以使refuse产生更进一步的语气.

以上是个人临时想到的一些看法,还请指正

有点道理，谢谢！