求问manhattan SC一道idiom的题

laurawinter

Manhattan中Idiom list里[With]词条有这样一句话：

With only 25% of the student body, seniors get 50% of the resources.

Mahattan认为是错误的，请问各位牛人是为什么错呢？
苦思冥想也没头绪……谢谢大家啦！

Tobelogical

Senior应该不是with only 25%
我觉得改成这样符合逻辑：
Accounting for only 25% of the student body, seniors get 50% of the resources

laurawinter

Senior应该不是with only 25%
我觉得改成这样符合逻辑：
Accounting for only 25% of the student body, seniors get 50% of the resources

-- by 会员 Tobelogical (2011/8/5 21:32:49)

拜谢这位大大！！

vilawe

在国外论坛上看到的一篇回复，觉得这个解释很有用，这里引用一下
Generally speaking, when you have a "with" modifier set off with a comma, the modifier is usually functioning as an adverbial modifier, which means it modifies the entire clause it is touching, and it usually provides some additional commentary about that clause.

So, in the first case, while the lions are growling, their fur is also standing on end - the "with" modifier about the fur is giving us extra info about when the lions are growling.

That's not quite what's going on in the second sentence. The meaning is more like "though the seniors compose only 25% of the student body, they get 50% of the resources." The first part is not additional information about or an example related to the main clause. Instead, it is part of a contrast being made between the two parts of the sentence.

The other problem with the "wrong" sentence is that it is ambiguous. What does "with only 25% of the student body" mean? The seniors are using 25% of the student body - maybe the freshmen? - to get 50% of the resources? Or the seniors are, themselves, 25% of the student body?
那么这句话应该有两个问题，一个是逻辑意思上不对，with表现得是一种联系，而这个句子本身要表现的是一种对立，另一个问题是会产生歧义，with only 25% of the student body是指的seniors中的25%，还是seniors占学生总数25%

vivian2011

pennyz

这个讲解好！

spoon0212

真心有用，谢啦