og12 sc64 关于aggravating 和aggravate

Snowboard

Doctors generally agree that such factors as cigarette smoking, eating rich foods high in fats, and alcohol consumption not only do damage by themselves but also aggravate genetic predispositions toward certain diseases.
(A) not only do damage by themselves but also aggravate
(B) do damage by themselves but also are aggravating to
(C) are damaging by themselves but also are aggravating
(D) not only do damage by themselves, they are also aggravating to
(E) are doing damage by themselves, and they arealso aggravating


答案是A。请教b,c,d,e都说aggravating "distort" the meaning of sentence, 如何理解？

jameshzd

alcohol consumption 是在aggravate （恶化） genetic predispositions ，如果改成 are aggravating to，那是alcohol consumption 自己在恶化，当然就改变原意了。

fiona711

alcohol consumption 是在aggravate （恶化） genetic predispositions ，如果改成 are aggravating to，那是alcohol consumption 自己在恶化，当然就改变原意了。

-- by 会员 jameshzd (2011/7/15 9:08:43)

对不起啊，我还是不太明白，aggravate genetic predispositions的主语是alcohol sonsumption，are aggravationg to的主语也是alcohol consumption啊，都是它在恶化 为什么就改变原意呢？ 请帮忙>< 谢谢！

bitieming

应该是说do damage和aggravate的平行吧，吸烟高脂肪摄入酒精有这两个递进的危害，但BC中两个危害的关系变成了转折，D应该只是单纯破坏了平行，E将两个危害变成了平行关系。
但是关键还是他们结构上都不平行吧……

mongmong

ding 这里我不懂，2楼说的有道理，因为aggravate有两个意思，

1) to make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse 使严重；使恶化 VN
See also: worsen Synonym
2) to annoy somebody, especially deliberately （尤指故意地）激怒，惹恼 informal VN
See also: irritate Synonym

似乎OG的BCDE的意思是aggravating 用了第二个意思，因此是不对的？

很困惑~~~

弗拉多

LS正解呵呵

aeoluseros

aggravating有单独的意思：annoying.
B,D里就是取用了这个意思而错（因为aggravating后面有to所以取本意）
C,E则是aggravating成了形容词，有意思为annoying修饰predispositions的歧义。

mongmong

aggravating有单独的意思：annoying.
B,D里就是取用了这个意思而错（因为aggravating后面有to所以取本意）
C,E则是aggravating成了形容词，有意思为annoying修饰predispositions的歧义。

-- by 会员 aeoluseros (2011/8/5 11:11:02)

恕我愚钝。。。。
B,D 与C, E错误的理由不一样？
为啥aggravating后面有to是annoying的意思？ 你是要说B, D是形容词，C,E是动词，还是我理解反了？

这个单词真可怕。。

Tobelogical

aggravate可以做及物动词和不及物动词
aggravate sth. 使某物恶化
sth aggravates to 指某物恶化成...

aeoluseros

aggravate可以做及物动词和不及物动词
aggravate sth. 使某物恶化
sth aggravates to 指某物恶化成...

-- by 会员 Tobelogical (2011/8/6 10:55:34)

LDOCE, AHL, WEBBER里都木有这个用法诶，它们认为aggravate只做及物动词..