prep2-27 itself 为什么要省略

akness

27.(25844-!-item-!-188;#058&002767)



In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand into high-growth pharmaceuticals and futuristic biotechnologies.



(A) itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand

(B) itself from emphasizing its chemicals business then to expanding

(C) from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expanding

(C) from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expanding
(D) from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expand

(E) from emphasizing its chemicals business to expanding
请问：B中的itself为什么要省略？

akness

还是没有人回复我吗？呜呜

tracyforever

又是itself，又是its chemical business，好累赘吧！重复了！

mapleaf

你这答案不对啊。。选E

hanlei8492

同意选E，对称。

ike982003

同问，为何itself要省略，感觉后面its business不是很罗嗦啊

imJoanie

居然没人解释。。。。同问为森么要省略itself啊。。。。

shjtSAIF

imJoanie 发表于 2013-9-30 22:35
居然没人解释。。。。同问为森么要省略itself啊。。。。

It`s a idiom problem.Here the idiom is From x To y. And,"moving itself" doesn't work, unless the company is trying to dance.

ohmybabyyiran

in this kind of context, you may need to use "__self/ves" for verbs that REQUIRE an object.

e.g.,

• "move" does NOT require an object, though it's possible to use one. (i.e., you can move something... but you can also just move.)
so, "move yourself/itself/themselves" will generally be redundant, unless there's a very compelling reason, in terms of style and/or emphasis, to use it. (Neither style nor emphasis is tested on this exam, so any exceptions are irrelevant.)

• "remove" MUST take objects. (you can remove things/people from a situation. you cannot, however, "remove from a situation".)
so, since it's impossible to write "i removed from the ballot", we write "i removed myself from the ballot" instead.

ivivian

ohmybabyyiran 发表于 2015-8-19 20:16
in this kind of context, you may need to use "__self/ves" for verbs that REQUIRE an object.

e.g.,

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