部分比较than后面如何补出？看aeo贴后的一些疑问

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感谢楼主提供这么好的分析贴！

我尝试提出我的看法：

A large rise in the number of housingstarts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by severalbillion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much morerobust than five years ago.
(A) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust thanfive years ago
(B) and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust thanfive years ago
(C) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than itwas five years ago
(D) to make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust thanfive years ago
(E) in making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust thanit as five years ago
Key: C

我不觉得用 in five years ago 就可以不补出it was. 首先 in five years ago 没有这样的用法吧。five years ago就是时间状语啊，不需要加一个in。

题中making the construction industry's economic health much more robust 比较的是形容词 robust 的程度，而不是making的宾语construction industry's economic health. 如果是，应该说成 making health more robust than making that five years ago. 用it was，比较的是宾语补足语robust。。

供讨论。

-- by 会员 nemiah (2011/7/12 14:25:02)

臣窃以为此处仍然是对于economic health 的对比，economic health 是比较对象，而是否更加robust仅仅是对于比较结果的描述， 就像“A 的成绩比B 的成绩好”一样， A、B的成绩是比较对象，哪个更好是比较的结果。
因此我认为在这句话的后半句中， 作者想表达的完整意思是 construction industry's economic health is much more robust than economic health was five years ago.    C答案中 用it 来代替了economic health.

望指正

HeleneW

nemiah 发表于 2011-7-12 14:35
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