OG 13 里的15题SC，小弟有些疑惑，希望各位前辈解答~~~

xuyunbang

Many experts regarded the large increase in credit card borrowing in March not as a sign that households were pressed for cash and forced to borrow,rather a sign of confidence by households that they could safely handle new debt.
A.rather a sign of confidence by households that they could safely
B.yet as a sign of households' confidence that it was safe for them to
C.but a sign of confidence by households that they could safely
D.but as a sign that households were confident they could safely
E.but also as a sign that households were confident in their ability safely to

我知道结构是not as...but as...  我就是不明白OG解释说A中的介词by不能用来表达households are confident.为什么不能表达？
然后又说that they could safely handle new debt放在households后面会引起困惑。这是什么意思啊？
选项D中confident后面不用跟上一个that吗？
然后在E选项中，为什么说safely to handle 是awkward的呢？

小弟是怎么想都想不通啊，希望各位前辈可以为小弟解惑。非常感谢！

zhengjiahan

D 我也不明白为什么少that
但是其它选项的疑问其实都因为not as a sign that...but as a sign that…是最有效的表达

cd0304

我是这样理解的。首先A中确实不能用by,你可以换成of--"confidence of households". 其次，如果把"that they could safely handle new debt" 放在households之后，会有种嫌疑它是用来说明households的。但实际上这句话是用来说明households的confidence在哪里。（这里可能不能完全按照中文的思维方式理解。。。）再者，D中是可以有that也可以没有的。这是个小用法。比如你可以说she says she is sleepy. 或者用she says that she is sleepy都可以。最后，E中的safely是来修饰their ability to handle new debt.如果把safely放在句中，确实有点拗口。我们可以改成 their ability to handle new debt safely.

希望可以帮到你一点。

黑絔电视

虽然这个是老贴了，但根据GMAT的原则，D应该只是相对清晰，正确的表达原文意思的句子。所以关于that的这个，如果选项有”that“的，而其他地方也正确，应该最优选这个。但本题很明显没有，所以就选相对最优的了

yiqing2012

1、sth by sb不能表达sb's sth，这里是说household的confidence（如果不是这个意思confidence就没有限定，谁的confidence?），所以要么如Bhouseholds' confidence ，要么如D改成形容词（当然D更好）
2、GMAT中尽量避免x that y that的结构，类似的还有x to y to,x in y in之类的，我记得OG上有一题是：...that evidence to suggest that...这里to suggest 按正常应该是 that suggests,就是为了避免这种结构，所以变成了to suggest~

Vivian1091

paras123 wrote:

Ok the D Clears the parallelism issue but isn't the construction "households were confident they could safely" is a bit awkward without a "that " between confident and they??? ( "households were confident that they could safely....")


Hi there,
Your doubt is pretty valid. Generally two indepedent clauses are joined together by using a conjunction. Here "that" is the conjunction that should be joining these two ICs. However, many a times "that" is dropped between two ICs when the meaning is absolutely clearly.
For example:
She told me she would call at 5 pm.
Joe mentioned the party was at his place.

Even if both these sentences lack "that", they are not ambiguous in their meaning.

Use of "that" is imperative when it is used as relative pronoun.
For example:
Joe gave me a book that was lying in his room for six months now.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha
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消失的五花

E是ability to 比could要awkward

bejamin1111

safely作副词，没有修饰对象

xunzlyx

yiqing2012 发表于 2013-2-13 21:36
1、sth by sb不能表达sb's sth，这里是说household的confidence（如果不是这个意思confidence就没有限定， ...

楼主解释得厉害~

xunzlyx

yiqing2012 发表于 2013-2-13 21:36
1、sth by sb不能表达sb's sth，这里是说household的confidence（如果不是这个意思confidence就没有限定， ...

楼主解释得厉害