关于OG12 72 的疑惑

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72More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development
and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal
support.

(A)to greater economic development and investing

(B)to greater development economically and investing

(C)of greater economic development and invest

(D)of greater development economically and invest

(E)for greater economic development and the investment of

选 A

首先，开头的More and more in recent years, 是什么意思？这样的格式也可以做时间状语吗？
其次，as a means to 不用管单复数吗？a和means不是矛盾吗？
再次，to greater economic development 为什么我看了几个帖子，都在解释greater为"包括市区及郊区的"。难道这句话不是“为了更大的经济发展” 的意思么？那么to后面可以接名词喽？为什么我又觉得应该是to do结构更对？就像OG自己的解释，应该是 to achieve greater economic development吧。

求解答。

ximenheng

means 手段，方法
a means 一种手段，方法

Joe is working two jobs. as a means to an end.
the cites are stressing arts. as a means to greater economic development
是不是很像
to = 达到= og提的achieve
means 指代are stressing arts

what is a means to greater economic development? 换成疑问句更好理解
stressing city is a means to greater economic development. 如果加achieve，to和achieve, wordy。


more and more in recent years  同求？
more and more 什么词性  副词么？ 修饰啥？ stressing 和investing?

泠泠曲罢

To Z:
More and more in recent years  近来越来越普遍

楼上的
as a means to an end是一个固定搭配 它表示的意思为
something that you are not interested in but that you do because it will help you to achieve something else.

大部分情况下as a means to后面跟的是动词，这也可以解释为什么greater 在这里做动词理解而不是形容词

more and more 是adv

teddybearj4

我觉得这里不用去区分to的后面是接verb.还是 noun.，这题的重点在于是a means of还是a means to的用法。
Subway is a means of transportation. ( a kind )
Diligence is a means to success. ( a goal )
其中题目的用法是第二种，表示目的，这里to 是prep.后面接名词或Ving，并不是不定式的用法。

to ximenheng：我查longman的时候看到了你举的as a means to an end，这里的to也是作Prep., 后面还是要跟Noun，不能接verb。字典里只有way有a way to do的用法，没有 a means to do的用法。

ximenheng

。。。介个 我不认为to后面是动词。。。 而是名词。。。
比如 as a means to satisfaction
假设greater是动词  那great是啥？ 只有greater 没有great 不符合规则。。。

ximenheng

那more and more 修饰的是啥？肯定不是ｉｎ　ｒｅｃｅｎｔ　ｙｅａｒｓ啊。
修饰整个句子？　莫非是这样：　ｍｏｒｅ　ａｎｄ　ｍｏｒｅ，　ｉｎ　ｒｅｃｅｎｔ　ｙｅａｒｓ，　ｃｉｔｙｓ　ａｒｅ　ｓｔｒｅｓｓｉｎｇ．．．

edisonshi

不太明白为什么是stressing 和 investing平行？感觉句意不顺啊，求翻译句意。。

兰心寒

edisonshi 发表于 2013-1-22 16:05
不太明白为什么是stressing 和 investing平行？感觉句意不顺啊，求翻译句意。。 ...

... cities are stressing the arts as a means to .... and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities... : 城市一直在强调艺术可以....并且持续花了几百万美金用在文化活动上.....（个人理解）