In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species, dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the organism's trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it.
24. In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species, dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the organism’s trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it.
(A) trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it
(B) trying that it metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant
(C) attempt to try to metabolize, or render harmless, such a chemical irritant
(D) attempt to try and metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritating it
(E) attempt to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant
答案选e 题目懂了 想问一个细节
我问一个很简单的。。赵丽老师的gmat根本大法,不是说动词优于形容词吗?e中,the chemical irritant 中的irritant 形容词后置,但是the chemical irritating it中irritate却是动词耶。。。这个适用这个规律不。那个是比较简洁的表达?如果是 e怎么反而优选了?求解啊啊啊不胜感激
jennyfufu 发表于 2013-7-19 10:17
本来是the chemical that irritate it 把定从变为后置定语 用现在分词修饰变成the chemical irritating i ...
好的,LZ很清楚irritating作形容词来修饰chemical,那还不如直接用the chemical irritant表达比较简单直接,而且还避免了it的指代问题。而且,LZ也很明白,D选项最大的问题就是attempt to try and metabolize的表达混乱。所以不必须去纠结这些什么说法,而且动词优于形容词这个说法本身就有问题,太绝对。
另外,上面那个问题是这样的。chemical irritant比起chemical that is irritating it要简洁,前面只要2个单词,后面要4个。所以简洁并不是单纯单词间的比较,而是整个句子语义简洁的比较。其次,it逻辑上是指代organism,但是organism在这句话中是形容词(organism's trying),所以it没有先行词,指代错误。