OG186

cranberry

186. Judge Bonham denied a motion to allow
members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of to confine them to a hotel.
(A) to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of to confine them to
(B) that would have allowed members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of confined to
(C) under which members of the jury are allowed to go home at the end of each day instead of confining them in
(D) that would allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day rather than confinement in
(E) to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day rather than be con-fined to


选e我觉得会有歧义啊，可以理解成法官拒绝了一项动议而允许...，而题目本来的意思是这个动议的内容是允许...。真是伤脑筋。

weiyu

我觉得翻译为:


B法官拒绝了一项提议,    那就是允许陪审团成员在每天结束后回家而不是把他们框在旅馆里.

ca3ltoys

cranberry, where do you live? Canada? Which City?

tianwan

allow有let的意思。

ecsniffer

motion:


SUGGESTION AT A MEETING
[countable]a proposal that is made formally at a meeting, and then is usually decided on by voting
The motion was defeated by 201 votes to 159.
motion to do something/motion that
We will now vote on the motion that membership charges should rise by 15%.

dreadpower

     rather than 后是不是省略了to??

ecsniffer

以下是引用dreadpower在2004-4-1 9:57:00的发言：
     rather than 后是不是省略了to??

是的

In this sentence, members of the jury are presented with two options: they may (1) go home or (2) be confined to a hotel. The rejected motion would have allowed them to do the first rather than [to] suffer the second. Members of the jury must be the logical subject of both options, and both must be expressed in parallel form, that is, as infinitive clauses. E, the best choice, observes these requirements. In A and C, the phrase members of the jury is not the logical subject of the second option, to confine them or confining them, since jury members are not doing the confining. In B and D, confined and confinement are not infinitives and thus do not parallel to go in the first option.fficeffice" />

tianwan

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&ID=43036

cranberry

大家好像没明白我的意思啊，我的疑问是，OG的 答案，会不会造成歧义，我虽然知道原句要表达的意思是什么，但按另一种理解，把原句理解为法官拒绝一项动议，而（决定）允许...，好像也说得通啊，那这样算不算有歧义呢？

snow_mountain

偶认为to allow 跟motion 连得跟紧些，而不是跟deny sth to do, 这样就不会有歧义了。