OG12－SC52提问：independent of和independent from

劳小狮

143. Recently discovered fossil remains strongly suggest that the Australian egg-laying mammals of today are a branch of the main stem of mammalian evolu­tion rather than developing independently from a common ancestor of mammals more than 220 mil­lion years ago.

(A)    rather than developing independently from

(B)    rather than a type that developed independently from

(C)    rather than a type whose development was independent of

(D)    instead of developing independently from

(E)    instead of a development that was indepen­dent of

最后排除剩下了B和C，OG的解释是Independent distorts the original meaning
到底B的independent from和C的independent of区别在哪里呢？
之前有人已经法发过帖子问了，但是还没有回复，想看看路过的CDer有没有留意到这个考点的？

lindberghya

a verb (developed) is always better than a noun.(development), if there is no grammatical issues in two choices.
the author intended to say " independently developed" to emphasize "develop"
However, in C, the light is put on "development", and the intended meaning is distorted.

greygray

我觉得是这个意思: independently 这一句是指独立地从一个相同的祖先开始进化
                          independent from 这一句的意思则被扭曲了，指的是，这个动物的进化和这个相同的祖先没有关系。
这里不能简单地从楼上那位的角度来理解

劳小狮

greygray 发表于 2013-12-12 13:59
我觉得是这个意思: independently 这一句是指独立地从一个相同的祖先开始进化
                          i ...

B里面的develop independently就是说独立进化，
C里面的whose development was indeoendent of就变成了与祖先分离地独立进化
这样理解ok吗？

greygray

劳小狮 发表于 2013-12-16 09:00
B里面的develop independently就是说独立进化，
C里面的whose development was indeoendent of就变成了与 ...

完了。。。。我自己也一时扯不清楚了。。。。。。。。。。
至少，动词形式的develop 优于名词development

JoeyNgai

我觉得，C中不能说development was independent of a common ancestor吧，要说也是the development of a common ancestor才能相提并论