38. Bengal-born writer, philosopher, and educator Rabindranath Tagore had the greatest admirationfor Mohandas K. Gandhi the person and also as a politician, but Tagore had beenskeptical of Gandhi’s form of nationalism and his conservative opinions about India’s cultural traditions.
(A) for Mohandas K. Gandhi the person and also as a politician, but Tagore had been
(B) for Mohandas K. Gandhi as a person and as a politician, but Tagore was also
错选A,正选B。
思维误区:我认为B中the person和a politician一个是表示属性一个是职业不能并列。实际上A项的错误就是两个元素应该平行而没有平行。正确的说法应为Gandhi the person and the politician, 或者Gandhi as a person and as a politician
OG解释:
Rhetorical construction; Parallelism
This sentence describes the writer and philosopher Tagore’s two types of feelings for Gandhi. The underlined part of the sentence has to express correctly the time line of these two feelings (they happened simultaneously). The underlined part also has to express the correct relationship between the complements of admiration and skepticism.
A To maintain parallelism, it is important for two conjoined phrases to be of the same grammatical type.Thus, it is appropriate to conjoin Gandhi the person and the politician, or Gandhi as a person and as a politician,but it is nonstandard in English to mix and match. In addition, the use of the past perfect tense had been places the skepticism earlier on the time line than the admiration, which is misleading.
B Correct. This version correctly conjoins two parallel phrases, Gandhi as a person and as a politician, and, in using two simple past tenses to introduce the two emotions, marks them as holding at the same time.
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