以下是引用携隐在2004-9-22 9:47:00的发言:增加一个as well as的例子:OG221 221. Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, according to three research studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
(A) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for
(B) be significant in reducing the risk of heart attacks and aid for (C) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and aid
(D) cause a significant reduction in the risk of heart attacks and aid to
(E) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks as well as aiding
Choices A, B, and D each produce a clearly unintended meaning: by using aid as a noun rather than a verb, each creates a misleading parallel with the noun risk so that the sentences nonsensically state that eating saltwater fish may reduce aid as well as risk. In addition, B and D are wordy and awkward. Choice C, the best answer, avoids the prepositions/or (from A and B) and to (from D), instead using aid as a verb that is parallel with reduce. Choice E lacks the grammatical parallelism of may reduce... and aid, the compound verb in C.
reduce和aid应该是同时发生的动作,如解释所说,是compound verb。这个时候只能用and,as well as暗示了aid发生在reduce之前,或暗示aid不如reduce重要,都不对。结合miaoyin提供的and用法,可以体会到compoud verb的感觉了。OG好几个地方解释说到compound,今天算是有了新体会。
不知道这段og的解释全不全?就我感觉而言,还有两个错误。一个是significant和significantly有转义。第二个是e的as well as后面至少也得要用aid |