For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
30. For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears. (A) a method to protect (B) as a method protecting (C) protecting (D) as a protection of (E) to protect
E选项解释说,Although the infinitive to protect would work if it were not preceded by a comma, it cannot act as a nonrestrictive adjectival phrase modifying items.
谢谢翻译~不过如果真的是这样,我倒也还是存疑。 因为如果去掉to protect的话,那结果就是items of military equioment to protect了。 可是这样的话,to protect为什么会是非限制性修饰语?而且怎么就会修饰到items去了?莫非to do做定语也能跳跃指代核心词?
我同意你的这个说法。主要是我刚才没把句子列全,重新发个完整版Although the infinitive to protect would work if it were not preceded by a comma, it cannot act as a nonrestrictive adjectival phrase modifying items.