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这几天研究了些题,越来越明显觉得D中的raising the humidity within them确实是修饰tourists的,看来OG12解释真是权威啊。
(D) because of moisture that was exhaled by tourists raising the humidity within them to levels so high as to make the salt from the stone crystallize
此句里面有两层定语从句,一个是that was exhaled by tourist修饰moisture,
另一个是问题关键所在raising the humidity within them.....该句到底是修饰tourists,还是跳跃修饰了前面的moisture. 其实是语法上是就近修饰的tourists而在逻辑上修饰了moisture,所以这里就产生了歧义,该句肯定就有问题了。
这几天找到了些例句来证明我的观点,如下:
Behaviorists suggest that the child who is raised in an environment where there are many stimuli which develop his or her capacity for appropriate responses will experience greater intellectual development. 此句包含了3层定语从句,分别是who...引导定语从句就近修饰child,where引导定语从句就近修饰environment, which 引导定语句就近修饰了stimuli,非常整齐的句子。
所以现在返回D项看raising the humidity within them...该定语从句在语法上必修饰tourists,这里的them指代肯定容易看成是指代tourists的。
另一方面关于定语从句的跳跃修饰在什么时候是合理正确的,我在白勇语法上找到了相关用法:
白勇P236,13题
Byron possessed powers of observation that would have made him a great anthropologist and that makes his letters as a group the rival of the best novels of the time. that... and that.....两个定语从句跳过of ovservation修饰了powers名词,这种情况下虽然语法上修饰的是obseration,但是逻辑上修饰的却是powers,照理说修饰有歧义了,但是这种n. of n.跳跃过名词修饰前面名词时允许的。
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