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carmenleaf

I still have a question:

If "its" refers to "reputation",then the sentence can be rewritten like this: Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, but whose reputation declines after death and　the reputation never regains its former status

这样就成了reputation regains status，个人认为应该是composer regains　status ，另外，想问

ｃ为什么不是： but whose reputation declines after death and who　never regains its former status .   who为什么可以省略呢？

carmenleaf

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carmenleaf

up!

ustoday

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angeliana

以下是引用薰衣紫草在2005-5-6 5:32:00的发言：
composer是人, 即使用代词也不是its, 所以这里不存在指代不清.

那紫草MM的意思就是说 its指代的是 reputation ?

如果这样的话:

以下是引用carmenleaf在2005-8-26 17:04:00的发言：

I still have a question:

If "its" refers to "reputation",then the sentence can be rewritten like this: Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, but whose reputation declines after death and　the reputation never regains its former status

这样就成了reputation regains status，个人认为应该是composer regains　status .

淡蓝色的回忆

it 是优先指 定语从句“whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status”中的主语reputation ，再其次指主句中的 the kind of composer

fuyun

Choice A may also be faulted for the redundancy of never regains... again.可是这一用法在C里边也由阿，如何解释呢？

shihho

以下是引用fuyun在2005-10-18 2:46:00的发言：
Choice A may also be faulted for the redundancy of never regains... again.可是这一用法在C里边也由阿，如何解释呢？

選項(c) 沒有 again。

(c) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status

hyte

以下是引用jefferyli在2004-7-28 21:18:00的发言：

246. Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.
(A) often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again
(B) whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again
(C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status
(D) who declines in reputation after death and who never regained popularity again
(E) then has declined in reputation after death and never regained popularity

Key: C, agree. The question here is the highlighted after death, gramatically it should refer to reputation in first priority, rather than to composer, therefore causing confusing, am I right?

我覺得after death是指composer的death~沒有不嚴謹! 因為reputation的前面接的是whose呀! 表示是composer's reputation! 所以用death也該是composer's death~~ 這樣也很平行! 根據句意death怎麼可能是reputation的~ reputation只能上勝或下降! 怎麼能死?!  所以沒有confusing! (個人覺得sc還是以句意優先)

juh

its指代的是 reputation .

(How can the composer regain his status after his death?  Dead person can no longer do anything, neither decline nor regain.)