请教一道KAPLAN的语法

chanelcoco

reserchers are studing platistics that dissolve at different rates,and they are finding that the so-called"quick disintegration"plastics are taking more time to deterioate than they originnally seemed.

answer is :it originnally seemed they would


看不懂这个答案的说~~~~~~~~~~~

klablue

chanelcoco MM,我是这样理解答案的：
they originnally seemed.中的是指plastics，没有争议，但plastics与 seemed搭配，意思不合理，应该是reserchers来seem

it originnally seemed they would中的it 指代they would，这样做是为了保持than前后比较对象一致

你看呢？

晴天猪

偶认为it是逻辑主语~~

klablue

以下是引用晴天猪在2003-3-18 18:26:00的发言：
偶认为it是逻辑主语~~

同意！！！

RenZhen

You can either say:
...plastics are taking more time to deterioate than originally seemed.
or:
..., they are finding that...plastics are taking more time to deterioate than it originally seemed (that) they would (find).

"...than they originally seemed." is wrong because "they" refers to "researchers". Remember that the same pronoun must refer to the same thing in one sentence? There is a "they" earlier referring to "researchers". So second "they" referring to "plastics" is wrong.

RenZhen

Below is one correct sentence for your reference:

For many travelers, charter vacations often turn out to cost considerably more than they originally seemed. (A-P1-188)

1stzhang

这个题目很怪,东方的教材的答案和kaplan的答案不一样

小镜mm

For many travelers, charter vacations often turn out to cost considerably more than they originally seemed.
(A) they originally seemed
(B) they originally seem to
(C) they seemingly would cost originally
(D) it seemed originally
(E) it originally seemed they would
答案是A

引用～
KAPLAN2001模拟测试第二套中一题:
Researchers are studying plastics that dissolve at different rates, and they are finding that the so-called 'quick disintegration' plastics are taking more time to deteriorate than they originally seemed.
a) they originally seemed
b) they seemed originally
c) it seemed that they would originally
d) it originally seemed
e) it originally seemed they would
这题答案是E
解释：The tricky part here is choosing between 'they' and 'it'. 'They' would imply that the plastics themselves first seemed to do one thing, and then ended up duoing something else. The expletive 'it' - the pronoun that has no particular antecedent - makes more sense; it suggests simply that initial indications turned out to be misleading. Using 'it', it's necessary to include the phrase 'they would', to make it clear what seemed to be the case.
KAPLAN题中they originally seemed似乎只能省略to deteriorate但这样意思表达不对。
E中，补全后是plastics are taking more time to deteriorate than it originally seemed they would take (time) to deteriorat
it seemed that的that可省。
越来越糊涂了我。。。

wangxiwei

同上 我也晕了
还有4L说的 我也有疑问
You can either say:
...plastics are taking more time to deterioate than originally seemed
这种比较是常见 类似于than expected.
这种比较是不是可以视为状语成分的比较
是不是 把原句改为
plastics now take more time to deterioate than originally seemed
才行??