ask og 117

liuyang1984

不能改

claim作及物动词的意思是1）to ask for,take ,or state that one should have(something to which one has a right)显然不符合题意。

                       2）to deserve or need

作不及物动词的意思是 to declare to be true;state,esp.in the face of opposition;

                     用法为 claim + to v

                            claim + that

            e.g 1)They (claim to have discovered/claim that they have discovered) a cure for the disease,but this had not yet been proved.

autumn713

以下是引用FionaLiang在2006-5-7 15:45:00的发言：

A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.

(A)   from a one-page writing sample that it can assess.

(B)    from a one-page writing sample it has the abil­ity of assessing

(C)   the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing

(D)   to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess

(E)    being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,

C中改为 the ability to assess对吗？

也就是，claim the ability这种用法可以吗？

我覺得改了應該也是錯的 先不管文法上對不對

claims the ability, from***, to V.

讓讀者不禁會問the ability, what ability?

後面又缺乏that NP說明到底是什麼ability所以應該還是錯誤

tracy3186

这道题我选的a

我看了og的解释说a有歧异

但是我体会不出a和c意思的区别

a是从一张纸上claims

那么c呢c的插入部分又怎么翻译

hohoo

歧义是这样的，一种理解是that是定于从句，然后读者会误解是对那一篇sample的access，另外一种理解是that是跟claim。
造成这种误解的原因就在于那个that前面from的插入，如果分离开来就不会有这样的误解了。

tigercaiqun

以下是引用colacat在2005-2-7 19:19:00的发言：

应该不是指代的问题

OG上说 In A, placing that after sample rather than after claims produces that unintended statement that the claim itself is made on the basis of a single on-page writing sample.

所以XDF老师说的不能从一张纸上声明

其实可以理解为，这个公司基于一张单页纸上声明说...。就是

from a one-page writing sample 修饰的是claim

但是实际上应该是修饰 assess

同意

youyou3941

其实我觉得就是claim that被分开了有歧义，that指不清楚了。一般宾语从句that都是紧跟的

goyce36

A中that可以修饰claim,也可以修饰sample

michaelwon

OG11里面的解释更为明确一些：

The meaning of this sentence becomes lost in an awkward and ungrammatical construction.

The verb claims may be followed by one of two correct constructions: claims that + a subordinate clause, or claims + the infinitive. When the prepositional phrase from a one-page writing sample is placed between claims and that, the result confuses and distorts the meaning by suggesting that the claim is contained in the writing sample. Instead, the firm claims to be able ... to assess. The prepositional phrase should be placed between a pair of commas to show clearly that it is additional information not crucial to understanding the sentence.

轻松1111

以下是引用hohoo在2007-2-11 15:19:00的发言：
歧义是这样的，一种理解是that是定于从句，然后读者会误解是对那一篇sample的access，另外一种理解是that是跟claim。
造成这种误解的原因就在于那个that前面from的插入，如果分离开来就不会有这样的误解了。

严重同意，错误的歧义是：that可以看作sample的修饰语。

但是我感觉that是同位语从句吧，不是定语从句吧。

deuxteer

以下是引用mmfoolish在2005-11-14 0:28:00的发言：
A中it 是否指代不清？为何ets没有指出呢？

同问啊，觉得it有点可疑，感觉又可以就近指代sample，又能指代a firm

有没有NN来确认下啊？