OG258请教，谢谢了

stellate

then 除了表示之后，主要是表示“在当时”的和轻微的因果关系：“由此”

Pudding

我懂了… 而且大象是annually, 所以怎么也不该是一前一后, 呵呵…

谢谢stellate JJ~! 妳解答了我好多问题喔…Thank you soooooooo much~!

小女公子

以下是引用tianwan在2004-5-2 13:19:00的发言：

2，A的时态关系是同时，所以B没有理由地更改了时态。

The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London.

有then了，难道还是simultaneous的呢？？？

还有，按照白痴语法，annually是不是不能和pefect tense连用？我记得高中有讲……

谢谢

薰衣紫草

OG71.   The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.

(A) subscriptions, then taking turns drawing

(B) subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing

(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing

(D) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew（C）

(E) subscriptions and then drew, taking turns

The sentence speaks of a sequence of actions in the past: shareholders made their monthly payments and subsequently took turns drawing on the funds. Choice C, the best answer, uses parallel past-tense verb forms to express this sequence. Choices A and B violate parallelism by using taking where took is required. The wording in D results in a run-on sentence and does not specify what the members took turns doing. Similarly, E does not specify what the members drew, and taking turns produces nonsense when combined with the rest of the sentence.

kuang21

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milanforever

tianwan的解释太精辟了。

我只能高山仰止，从来没有意识到the和限定/非限定修饰的这种微妙联系。

前辈的高度更激发了我们钻研OG的动力.

coolmanray

个人理解是不是因为大象在过去的一段时间内一直赚那么多钱所以用过去进行时，而she赚钱的动作只是在过去一段时间中的某一更短的时间段，所以用earned？

merben

then adv.

1. At that time: I was still in school then. Come at noon; I'll be ready then.

cmon

顶

ana9

I think (E) is right if it is changed as "that the elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning..." .