OG 13 SC20题 求助

fanofkaka

默默楚 发表于 2013-3-10 20:16
expectations  that personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than double th ...

It is a strange construction, definitely, but we don't have a better option. Our task is to find the best of the 5 choices given; B is it.

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baibai0002001

ddairy199 发表于 2013-1-29 17:31
哦哦，懂了。多谢！

"would"is auxiliary verb here so this clause follow a passive voice.

njubei07

默默楚 发表于 2013-3-10 20:16
expectations  that personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than double th ...

这里首先要弄明白expectation没有被实现，that引导的同位语从句中，必须用conditional,即would double.

double在Merriam中定义：

DOUBLE
transitive verb: to make twice as great or as many: as
a : to increase by adding an equal amount
b : to amount to twice the number of
spending in Quarter X would double（=make twice as great as）the A rate in spending for Quarter Y