To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.
To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long, before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.
(A) To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate,
(B) For Josephine Baker, long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Paris was her home,
(C) Josephine Baker made Paris her home long before to be an expatriate was fashionable,
(D) Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home,
(E) Long before it was fashionable being an expatriate, Paris was home to Josephine Baker,
OG解释说A : To Josephine Baker... her is redundant and awkward; the subject of the first main clause is Paris rather than Baker.
bejamin1111 发表于 2013-4-15 22:44
关于这里的redundancy:
这里的her指的就是JB’s,那么这句话就可以改写成:To Josephine Baker, Paris was ...
原句是这样的:
To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long, before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.
OG解释说A : To Josephine Baker... her is redundant and awkward; the subject of the first main clause is Paris rather than Baker.