再读OG 分册~一道语法题不解~

sunnyybao

A patient accusing a doctor of malpractice will find it difficult to prove damage if there is  a lack of some other doctor to testify about proper medical procedures.

A. if there is  a lack of some other doctor to testify
B. unless there will be another doctor to testify
C. without another doctor's testimony
D. should there be no testimony from some other doctor
E. lacking another doctor to testify

答案是 C 没有问题， 很简洁~
我的问题是 OG 上说 A 中 lack of some other doctor is not idiomatic. 为什么呢？lack 作为名词后面是可以+ of 的啊1.欠缺;不足;没有[U][S1][(+of)]
He can not buy it because of his lack of money.
他因缺钱买不起这个。

2.缺少的东西;需要的东西[C]
Water is a lack of this region.
这个地区缺水。


~难道是lack of 后面不能跟 to do ? 那有什么依据么？望路过的xdjm解答，~先谢谢啦~

regansun

正如答案C，从逻辑上讲，应该是缺少 doctor's testimony ，也就是缺少的是 testify这个行为，而不是少医生

A的话，看起来会有歧义，重点突出在了少dcotor，是因为doctor 少才导致了没人去testify这个行为？

sunnyybao

正如答案C，从逻辑上讲，应该是缺少 doctor's testimony ，也就是缺少的是 testify这个行为，而不是少医生

A的话，看起来会有歧义，重点突出在了少dcotor，是因为doctor 少才导致了没人去testify这个行为？

-- by 会员 regansun (2011/11/18 22:09:06)

谢谢 LS ~ 我明白了，可是不知道lack of  是否可以在后面 + to do, 搜索未果~

aeoluseros

1. lack of some other doctor没有这个用法，就直接don't have other doctor, without other doctor就行.
2. lack of sth. to do sth.木有问题.
3. A选项的there be不太好用在这里.

jianchijie

根据manhattan关于lack的解释：
Lack
RIGHT: Old gadgets ARE LACKING IN features.
          Old gedgets LACK features.
           The LACK OF features is upsetting.
SUSPECT: There is A LACK OF engineers TO BUILD new gadgets
WRONG: Old gadets LACK OF features.
             It is hard to build bridges LACKING engineers.
我猜SUSPECT是不是因为TO BUILD修饰不明确

chensong211

排除法应该选C  认为A 语意啰嗦。there be在这里也不合适。lack oｆ　没有ｗｉｔｈｏｕｔ　简洁

快活糖果

If "some" is used in front of something SINGULAR and countable -- as in "some doctor" -- then it means, basically, "a particular one (whose identity is usually not precisely known)".
E.g., My friend's sister ran away to Indiana with some guy, or If you let your little dog run out in the street, some big mastiff is going to come eat her.

"Lack of some doctor" is incorrect here, because the sentence isn't referring to the lack of one particular (perhaps unknown) doctor. It's referring to the fact that no doctor can testify.

From Ron
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/forums/the-use-of-lack-of-t25385.html