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
我的问题是:
1 为什么confidence by households 就不能表示households are confident? 这个问题,之前也有CDER问过,可是都没有得到解答,还望高人指点~
2 为什么it was safe for them to handle new debt就显示不出是谁发出handle new debt的动作呢???It is adj for sb to do 不是很常见的一个句式么??还是说这里问题在于households是在所有格里 是一个poor antecedent (如DUKB24前辈在
http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_SC/thread-755902-1-1.html帖子中提过),但是这个them 是在描述households' confidence的从句当中的,应当不能说会有指代experts的歧义吧?? 百思不得其解啊,gmatclub和beatthegmat上都找不到解答,求助各路大神!
-- by 会员 feathsea8 (2012/11/2 19:43:34)
that的位置!!!!!!!!你要严肃的对待这个问题
看看正确选项that的位置和你问的选项that的位置有什么不一样
1. that是修饰confident的内容的,你把households放到that的前面,第一,这不好,隔开了要修饰的对象;第二,造成了歧义,households可能被我们认为是that的修饰对象
2. 语义上的改变
a sign that ......(后面的从句来补充说明的是什么sign?就是households were ..这个clause,这个整体是一个sign)
a sign of confidence that(你说的是一个关于confidence的sign,而这个confidence是关于households的什么东西?)
从最好的层面来说,这可能就是更加wordy,用更多的词语来表达说愿意
但是从最差的层面来说,这改变了句意,a sign 的内容不是关于自信心的,是关于一个句子,由一个句子传达出来的整体
2.;我不觉得这里的them有问题 ;to do sth is adj for sb(对于某人来说做什么是有什么adj的效果的)
这种情况下
你并不能判断sb这个人现在有没有采纳这种建议
可能作为的是一种general rule,一种suggestion
说it is good for u to eat apple(这是别人的建议,但是你吃了没有不知道)
跟这里的道理一样(对于这些人来说,handle new debt这个动作是safe的)
但是这些人会不会采取,有没有这个能力我们不知道
正确的选项说了they could ....(确切的说明了他们有这个能力去怎么怎么样)
-- by 会员 DUKB24 (2012/11/2 22:58:50)