求教OG 13 SC 015

Grace080410

15.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 ofconfidence bv households that thev could
safely handle new debt.
E.but also as a sign that households were
confident in their ability safely to
OG 的解释是The use of the word also is misleading here.
If the first embedded clause is negated, the
affirmed second clause cannot also be true.其实我是不知道OG说的红色字体的是什么意思。我自己理解的是如果用了also相当于这个句子和“not as a sing...."是并列的，但是这里想表达的是转折关系

DesmondWang

not only..but also,这个是递进关系。
而原文要表达的是not.. but...如你所说是转折关系，所以不能加also。你不能说“病毒不能破坏免疫系统，但病毒也能摧毁神经系统”——这样的排句在逻辑上是有问题的。
我觉得OG说的其实就是一开始如果用否定的语气not，后面不能用“but also”这样的递进语气，因为它带有affirmed的性质，和前面的否定语气有冲突。

Grace080410

,谢谢啦

solde

DesmondWang 发表于 2013-1-26 14:18
not only..but also,这个是递进关系。而原文要表达的是not.. but...如你所说是转折关系，所以不能加also。 ...

可是prep08中不是说but also是表转折的么？