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A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. Of these, ten called the "select plays," are accompanied in L by ancient commentaries and also appear in other medieval manuscripts; this group includes some of Euripides' best-known works, including the Medea. The other eight, which appear only in L, are called the "alphabeticals" because they appear in alphabetical order, without commentary. The Electra is one of the "alphabeticals".
Which of the following can be reliably concluded on the basis of the Statements given?
Only Euripides' best-known works are accompanied by ancient commentaries in extant medieval manuscripts.
The select plays are accompanied by ancient commentaries because they were the best known of Euripides' works.
No commentaries were written about Euripides' Electra in ancient times.
Euripides' Medea never appears in medieval manuscripts unaccompanied by ancient commentary.
Euripides' Electra does not appear accompanied by a commentary in any extant medieval manuscript.
The other eight, which appear ONLY in L, ONLY看漏了
有个重点词没看懂....extant现存的*看懂了就知道C其实超纲了
讨论范围extant medieval manuscripts。L是其中之一。L中，分两类：10篇L有其他手稿也有*特征this group includes some of Euripides' best-known works,代表作the Medea：；8篇L独有*特征appear in alphabetical order, without commentary. 代表作The Electra。
看不懂题干说啥。背单词啊背单词
小心C这个坑，怀疑这种推理题是不是一般都把正确答案藏在底下前面丢几个烟雾弹？
C. 【错误】《伊莱克特拉》只在中世纪手稿L中有，其它中世纪手稿里没有，在L里没评论，等于说在中世纪的所有手稿中都没有评论，所以E正确。但是在除开中世纪的手稿，古代其它时间的手稿中有没有关于《伊莱克特拉》的评论，我们是无法从文章给定信息中得知的。
medieval意思是中世纪
一份名为L的中世纪手稿包含希腊剧作家欧里庇得斯现存的所有18部悲剧。其中10部被称为 "精选剧目"，在L中附有古代评论，也出现在其他中世纪手稿中；这一组包括一些欧里庇得斯最著名的作品，包括《美狄亚》。其他八部只在L中出现，被称为 "字母表"，因为它们按字母顺序出现，没有注释。《伊莱克特拉》是 "字母表 "中的一个。
the entire passage is concerned exclusively with the surviving manuscripts of these plays. 我们只知道现存的只有L里有，且还没有commentary，但有可能以前有但没存下来，故C错误，E正确
一份名为L的中世纪手稿包含希腊剧作家欧里庇得斯现存的所有18部悲剧。其中10部被称为 "精选剧目"，在L中附有古代评论，也出现在其他中世纪手稿中；这一组包括一些欧里庇得斯最著名的作品，包括《美狄亚》。其他八部只在L中出现，被称为 "字母表"，因为它们按字母顺序出现，没有注释。《伊莱克特拉》是 "字母表 "中的一个。
the entire passage is concerned exclusively with the surviving manuscripts of these plays. 我们只知道现存的只有L里有，且还没有commentary，但有可能以前有但没存下来，故C错误，E正确
Electra只出现在L里，而L没有附带commentary。所以后世不一定没有对E的commentary，但一定没有E+commentary（因为E只在L出现了）
感觉我想的和大家不太一样，虽然我也错选了C.
medieval manuscript = L, E仅出现在L中，没有commentary --- > E没有来自**medieval**的commentary （陷阱：medieval不等于ancient time）。
所以我认为此题的关键应该是在medieval上，而不是extant
C的时间纬度是in ancient times，而L包含的是extant（现存的）。
一个一个单词查清楚了，看懂了题干后就很简单了，最后一句说Electra是其中一种alphabeticals，而alphabeticals是另外八部只出现在L并且没有评注的剧本，所以Electra在任何现存的中世纪手稿中都没有评注。
哇这种好多单词不认识的真的太难对应了
c是一个坑，要仔细看
" The other eight, which appear ONLY in L" 没看见 only
（CD论坛的解释）
C. No commentaries were written about Euripides’ Electra in ancient times.
L中的E没有评论，不表示E从来没有评论
E. Euripides’ Electra does not appear accompanied by a commentary in any extant medieval manuscript.
首先，E出现在L中，但是没有评论
其次，E没有出现在过其他的手稿中
综上，E在所有的手稿中都没有伴随评论出现过
将选项进行对比，可以发现表述的差别。
Ron's answer for choice c:
the entire passage is concerned exclusively with the surviving manuscripts of these plays. that's all.
back in ancient times—when the play was first written—there may have been thousands and thousands of copies of Electra with commentary.
or there may have been none.
we just don't know.
we have a bunch of information about what is still in existence now, but, of course, that can't tell us anything about what existed back then.
C 只是说了commentaries没有appear出来 和E对比appear很重要
注意：这个L已经包括了所有的manuscript了也包括了所有的评论了
题干省略了一句很重要的话，原文应该是The other eight, which appear only in L, are called the "alphabeticals" because they appear in alphabetical order, without commentary.