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LES

终于在《美国传统辞典》上找到了一个例句：He is gentle, but he is also capable of fierce intellectual combat.

但是偶想这并不足以证明GMAT中可以这样用。

不过如果按照xealot的解释“个人相信but also 当作“但也是”讲的时候，而非当作“而且”讲的时候，应该是合理的。”，那么这里似乎更应该选D选项，因为这里前后是转折的关系：前半句讲带来的好长，后半句讲其不利的地方。

另外“not only...but also...”或者中文的“而且”是表递进的关系，强调的是后半句的内容。

还请NN继续讨论。

LES

but xxx also也肯定是错的。

xealot，上面这条有没有ETS的例证啊？谢谢！

TopTerminator

偶觉得可不可以用not only.. but it also是要看情况而定. 不是所有的情况都不能用. 偶觉得it 在but it also是主语成分, 如果not only也是修饰it的,  but it also就可以用. 但大多数情况下not only都不是修饰主语,这就是为什么大多数情况下,but it also都错的原因.  

个人愚见,大家讨论!!!

xealot

216. Many policy experts say that shifting a portion of health-benefit costs back to the workers helps to control the employer's costs, but also helps to limit medical spending by making patients more careful consumers.

(A)  helps to control the employer's costs, but also helps

(B)  helps the control of the employer's costs, and also

(C)  not only helps to control the employer's costs, but also helps

(D)  helps to control not only the employer's costs, but

(E)   not only helps to control the employer's costs, and also helps

To convey the idea that shifting a portion of health-benefit costs back to workers has two complementary effects, the correct sentence must link grammatically parallel statements of these effects with and also or with not only ... but also. In choice A, helps ... but also undermines the and also paradigm, wrongly suggesting a contrast in the effects. In choice E, the unidiomatic not only ... and violates the not only ... but also paradigm. Choices B and D are not parallel. Also, the phrase helps the control in B is vague and unidio­matic. Choice C, the best answer, develops the parallel not only helps to... but also helps to.

我的理解是，ETS理念里的两个idiom: not only... but also还有and also，都是用来表示递进的关系；而but also，如上面ETS指出的，表示转折关系。欢迎LES大牛继续指正！

xealot

but xxx also也肯定是错的。

xealot，上面这条有没有ETS的例证啊？谢谢！

125. The winds that howl across the Great Plains not only blow away valuable topsoil, thereby reducing the potential crop yield of a tract of land, and also damage or destroy young plants.

(A)  and also damage or destroy

(B)  as well as damaging or destroying

(C)  but they also cause damage or destroy

(D)  but also damage or destroy

(E)   but also causing damage or destroying

Choice D, the best answer, correctly employs the correlative construction not only x but also y, where x and y are grammati­cally parallel and where both x and y (damage and destroy) apply to young plants. Choices A, (not only ... and also), B (not only ... as well as), and C (not only ... but they also) violate the not only ... but also paradigm. Moreover, B contains terms (blow... damaging) that are not parallel. In C and E, damage is used not as a verb with young plants as its direct object but as a noun receiving the action of cause; consequently, these choices fail to state explicitly that the damage is done to young plants. E also violates parallelism (not only blow ... but also causing).

请大牛继续指正！

xealot

另外，个人认为but 和also分开了就不再是idiom了，因该分别当作原意来理解。

LES

以下是引用xealot在2004-7-9 18:43:00的发言：
另外，个人认为but 和also分开了就不再是idiom了，因该分别当作原意来理解。

对呀，偶觉得D选项正是这个意思，表示的是转折关系，而不是递进关系！

LES

25、26楼的例子都是表示递进的关系，所以用not only...but also或..., and also....

而本楼主的题目恰恰是转折关系。

现在偶选D。

rt316

以下是引用LES在2004-7-9 19:06:00的发言：

对呀，偶觉得D选项正是这个意思，表示的是转折关系，而不是递进关系！

有理，递进关系好像的确不太好，转折倒更合理。我一直只考虑了not only but also，忽略的句子的逻辑性。支持LES的观点。

bachordersee

以下是引用TopTerminator在2004-7-9 18:32:00的发言：

偶觉得可不可以用not only.. but it also是要看情况而定. 不是所有的情况都不能用.

同意上面所说的，这里有一个例子：

“America has the muscle, but it also has values”引自

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-10-2002_pg4_16