以下是引用lawyer_1在2005-7-10 4:52:00的发言: MAIN IDEA就是该段文作者的主要意思,作者支持的。这篇短文的作者是CRIMINOLOGIST。他/她到底要支持什麽,表达什麽,不难看出吧。第一句BOLD可是LEGISTLATORS的意见,是CRIMINOLOGIST要反对的。
is that people old enough to have served two prison sentences for serious crimes rarely commit more than one subsequent crime. Filling our prisons with such individuals would have exactly the opposite of the desired effect, since it would limit our ability to incarcerate younger criminals, who commit a far greater proportion of serious crimes.
说明对于younger 来说是不适用的 。请指教!
E.The first is a generalization about the likely effect of a policy under consideration in the argument; the second points out a group of exceptional cases to which that generalization does not apply.