求og12 逻辑119 A选项的翻译和解释

jiaying52

119. It is true of both men and women that those who marry as young adults live longer than those who never marry.
This does not show that marriage causes people to live longer, since, as compared with other people of the
same age, young adults who are about to get married have fewer of the unhealthy habits that can cause a
person to have a shorter life, most notably smoking and immoderate drinking of alcohol.
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument above?
(A) Marriage tends to cause people to engage less regularly in sports that involve risk of bodily harm.
(B) A married person who has an unhealthy habit is more likely to give up that habit than a person with the
same habit who is unmarried.
(C) A person who smokes is much more likely than a nonsmoker to marry a person who smokes at the time of
marriage, and the same is true for people who drink alcohol immoderately.
(D) Among people who marry as young adults, most of those who give up an unhealthy habit after marriage
do not resume the habit later in life.
(E) Among people who as young adults neither drink alcohol immoderately nor smoke, those who never marry
live as long as those who marry.


(A) Marriage tends to cause people to engage less regularly in sports that involve risk of bodily harm.
我的理解是结婚使人更少参与对身体有害的活动。但从og的解释To the extent that risk of bodily harm decreases longevity, this weakens rather than strengthens
the argument.来看，我的理解是错的。 请问下这句话应该怎么解释啊？

littlexian

Your explanation is right, and the OG's explanation seems right too.

The argument of this passage is that "Getting marry is not the main reason why married people can live longer, it is because their good habits, not really because of marriage "

Since A says, "eople play less risky sports because marriage, so they tend to live longer" It weakens the argument rather than strengthens it.

BTW, is E the answer? @@

jiaying52

E is right.
如果结婚使人更少的参与不健康运动的话，是不是可以理解成养成好习惯呢？那不是strength了吗？

littlexian

Actually no... The point of the argument is "not because of marriage."

如果结婚使人.... <<-- it means because of marriage, so poeple.. @#!%#$!@#   Right? So it weakens the argument.