作者Diablotin (咕噜咕噜)
看板GMAT
标题[问题] Manhattan GMAT一题修辞
时间Sun Oct 18 10:09:13 2009
Although they are less obvious, termites does significantly more damage
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to homes than branches from trees.
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(A) termites does significantly more damage to homes than
(B) termites do the most damage to significant homes than do
(C) the termite does significantly more damage to homes as do
(D) termites do significantly more damage to homes than
(E) termites do significantly more damage to homes than do
答案E, 详解如下：
The singular verb “does” does not agree with the plural subject
“termites.” Additionally, the meaning of the original sentence lacks
clarity. Does it mean that termites do more damage to homes than to branches,
or does it mean that termites cause more damage to homes than branches do?
Logic dictates that we are meant to make a comparison between the amount of
damage caused by termites to the amount of damage caused by branches.
不知道是不是我理解错误，我看这题的时候，觉得应该是白蚁对房子的伤害比对树枝的
伤害大。可是解答好像是写白蚁对房子的伤害比树枝对房子的伤害大，
好怪喔...是我看错解答的意思吗？
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1F：推 fur:你没有看错解答的意思，他是在做白蚁与树枝对房子伤害的比较。 10/18 11:31
2F：→ fur:做GMAT题目就是要用它的世界观，不要让你的背景知识渗进去混淆 10/18 11:33
3F：→ fur:了题目的意图。 10/18 11:33
4F：→ Diablotin:可是作题目的时候要怎麽选D和E阿？ 10/19 01:01
5F：→ alexy:如果选D，请问是什麽和什麽在比 ?? 10/19 01:52
6F：推 fur:D不可能，因为than是连接词，如果没有do，则其後面的子句就少 10/19 03:26
7F：→ fur:了动词；如果加了do，那不就仍然是白蚁对房子的伤害和树枝的伤 10/19 03:26
8F：→ fur:害在比？ 10/19 03:27
9F：→ fur:再补充详细一点，是白蚁对房子的伤害和树枝对房子的伤害在比。 10/19 03:29
10F：→ fur:再更正一下，than後面是句子，than是对等连接词。 10/19 03:36
11F：推 pentimento:than 後面接的是「副词子句」，than 是从属连接词， 10/19 14:32
12F：→ pentimento:而非对等连接词。 10/19 14:33
13F：→ stephanini:如果是D的话 可能加个than to ...比较好 10/20 23:30