OG13里第6题求助！

abjure

【這是從manhattan裏面copy出來的題目，考點一樣的】
RIGHT:   Her performance is exceeded ONLY by theirs, (modifies by theirs)
WRONG:  Her performance is ONLY exceeded by theirs, (technically modifies exceeded)
Note: ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. In both speech
and writing, we often place ONLY before the verb, but this placement is generally wrong,
according to the GMAT, since we rarely mean that the verb is the only action ever performed
by the subject.

根據manhattan的意思，上面WRONG的句子強調的是her performance唯一地產生了exceed這個動作，這樣是與題目的原意矛盾的。
我覺得不用太糾結它到底要怎麼翻譯，其實當你讀完句子以後，心裡應該對only要強調的側重點有所把握【這裡可以理解為only的作用是用來強調句子中的某些成份的，作者企圖強調什麽內容，only就放在什麽內容之前】。然後就根據only修飾的原則（ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. ），把only放在你認為意思上合理的那個成份前面就ok啦。

還有一個小技巧，我自己總結出來的，不過只是經過非常少量的樣本驗證，不知道是否非常非常適用【希望看到的童鞋積極地批判俺的這個idea!!><】
要判斷only的位置，先把句子讀完以後，按照自己的理解把中文翻譯出來，看翻譯的時候把“只有/只是”放在哪些內容的前面。換成英文句子的時候，only就是放在那些內容的前面。

希望幫到你啦^^

-- by 会员 TerraceHo (2012/11/23 19:56:18)

I thought most of time "（ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. ）" is correct.

However , there is exception:  the sentence from Prep.
213. (GWD-3-Q34)Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike those in department stores, dovery little impulse shopping; someone who comes in for a basketball will leavewith a basketball only and not buy a pair of skis and a boomerang as well.  

-- by 会员 abjure (2012/11/23 20:08:35)

謝謝ls分享^^！
同意"（ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify. ）" 僅是一般性的原則。
突然萌生了一個想法：如果某個選項要違背這個原則的話，在不會引起歧義也不改變句子意思的前提下，這個違背原則導致的改變還有其他很重要的作用。

比如ls所分享的句子，only被放在句末會不會是因為only要跟as well平行呢，我的意思是structurally parallel...
哈哈，有趣~~

-- by 会员 TerraceHo (2012/11/23 20:43:28)

“ONLY should be placed just before the words it is meant to modify” 这个原则强调的是要注意only到底修饰什么~一般而言，为了不使only修饰了错误的成分，所以把only放在要修饰的词之前~
Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike those in department stores, dovery little impulse shopping; someone who comes in for a basketball will leavewith a basketball only and not buy a pair of skis and a boomerang as well.  
这个句子并没有违反这个原则，就是因为不使only错误的修饰basketball,所以才放在了其后，这样only就可以无歧义地修饰了动作leave,当然放在leave之前也可以了~~
Terra所说当然也不无道理~ 因为gmat中很多句子都尽善尽美，虽然不能作为做题的split，但为了让这个句子“更优美”，出题人可能故意把only放在了后面~~

-- by 会员 yiqing2012 (2012/11/23 20:55:23)

赞

同意，我也觉得是only 和 as well 平行， 分别修饰他们的动词。

TerraceHo

今天看到Stacey對於only位置的解釋，copy到這裡跟大家分享一下^^順道還舉了2個不恰當的例子...嘿嘿

【From Stacey——解釋only位置引起句子意思的變化】

The modifier only moves around; according to the original (and correct) answer, we want to use only to limit “by heart disease and cancer” – that is, only heart disease and cancer surpass diabetes. In choices B, C, and E, “only” appears before “surpassed” – that is, heart disease and cancer only surpass diabetes. This would mean that there are no other actions, or verbs, by which we can relate heart disease and cancer to diabetes – only the verb “surpass.”【將only放在verb的前面，表示subject和object之間能夠有關係的動作有且只有這個verb!!】 It does not, however, maintain the original meaning: that there are only two things that surpass diabetes as a cause of death.



e.g. 1I only play LEGEND OF HEROES.【我跟英雄傳說之間只有play的關係！我沒有eat/drink/或者對它做任何其他的動作！我跟英雄傳說之間，唯一產生的動作，就是PLAY!!!】

e.g. 2I play only LEGEND OF HEROES.【我只玩英雄傳說，這表示我玩的遊戲有且只有一個，就是英雄傳說！我不會去玩仙劍/大富翁或者其他任何遊戲！我就獨愛玩英雄傳說!!!】

大家覺得俺的理解有錯歡迎拍磚!!!><thx~~

清月依云

ho大牛又来啦 欢迎