opeman SC 新题7 讨论

tianwan

Q7:

Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—less than those killed by bee stings.

A.      movies—less than those

B.       movies—fewer than have been

C.       movies, which is less than those

D.      movies, a number lower than the people

E.       movies, fewer than the ones

answer???我选D，其他表达上都有问题，意思错！！A，B的破折号也错。

可是，number可以和people比吗？

答案应该是B。

mariezhu

可是B似乎也有个很大的缺陷,除破折号外，

seven people have been killed by shark, fewer than have been killed by bee stings

看起来好像THE SAME SEVEN PEOPLE not noly have been killed by shark, but also by bee stings 有没有这种感觉？

LES

D. number 与 people 比较肯定错！

破折号，在这里相当于冒号，表示解释。

B 的意思没有错啊，被蜜蜂刺死的人比被鲨鱼咬死的多。

dreadpower

   破折号我实在不能接受：the man-eater of the movies做一个解释成分，解释white shark，后面怎么也要用逗号分开，表示作为一个插入成分啊？？

   D的比较是存在问题，我当时是排除的做的，没想到这点。。。晕了。。。

    大家讨论。。。

dashasha

我也觉得应该选B，我家领导说选E，我们俩争了半天，谁也说服不了谁。请问，B里PEOPLE能省略吗？

dreadpower

     我再仔细想了一下，是B。虽然破折号不爽，但是没有错

  

mariezhu

在那篇absolute phrases 里找到了一个关于破折号的依据：Since absolute phrases are optional in the sentence, they are often set off from the sentence with commas or, less often, with dashes.

dashasha

marie mm,那就是说这里，破折号跟逗号一样了？那应该选B了？B里省略了PEOPLE，可以吧？

JerryGuan

我选D，case-by-case analysis

B)  Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—fewer than have been killed by bee stings.

有问题：1、假设破折号连接第一个逗号部分，那么如marie

以下是引用mariezhu在2004-4-26 12:35:00的发言：

可是B似乎也有个很大的缺陷,除破折号外，

seven people have been killed by shark, fewer than have been killed by bee stings

看起来好像THE SAME SEVEN PEOPLE not noly have been killed by shark, but also by bee stings 有没有这种感觉？

2、在我看来，破折号是比逗号要更加紧密。（有兴趣，可找理由反对这一观点）

也就是本句中movies—fewer than have been killed by bee stings；fewer是在修movies。

而D选项，多么美啊，犹如貂禅那样~~~~虽然你们觉得是祸水，反正我喜欢！

D）  Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies, a number lower than the people killed by bee stings.

a number 指代前面的seven而非people；最后一部分，可以明白无误地跳过中间那部分，补充说明第一部分。

这种独立主格，前不久还讨论过一个。当时，是以所谓的JJ/真题形式出现的。

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-4-26 15:28:24编辑过]

mariezhu

纠正一个自己的错误：

关于“seven people have been killed by shark, fewer than have been killed by bee stings看起来好像THE SAME SEVEN PEOPLE not noly have been killed by shark, but also by bee stings 有没有这种感觉？”

刚刚翻遍了og，找到187，虽然是as many as，但是比较的意思还在：

four times as many as americans were killed as would later be killed on the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day.

解释里说含those who的选项 is a wordy intrusion.

再回到本题，已知dash没有问题，tianwangg质疑的”number可以和people比吗”也很有道理，所以尽管D中的a number曾是我的最爱，（看来JerryGG也有同感），但是觉得还是B好些。