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Before Colette, the female writers of France had been aristocrats, from Mme de Lafayette to Anne de Noailles; there were no Jane Austens or Brontë sisters, perhaps because there were almost no clergymen’s daughters.
were no Jane Austens or
were not Jane Austens or
was not Jane Austen nor the
was not a Jane Austen or the
was no Jane Austen or no
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这里是要说没有像jane austen这样的人，所以jane austen已经不是一个专有名词了，可以加复数。
考点1：There are/were no Xs or Ys，单复数要一致。
考点2：专有名词泛化可以加s表示复数。
句意为there were no female writers like Jane Austens or Bronte sisters，所以用复数
(A) were no Jane Austens or Brontë sisters ("were" works with both items because they're both plural)
(C) was not Jane Austen nor the Brontë sisters (singular "was" doesn't work with plural "sisters")
We can eliminate options C, D, & E because they use a singular verb with the plural Brontë sisters.
There were no Xs or Ys = CORRECT
There were not Xs or Ys = INCORRECT
idiom: there were no X's or Y's.
(A) were no Jane Austens or Brontë sisters ("were" works with both items because they're both plural)
(C) was not Jane Austen nor the Brontë sisters (singular "was" doesn't work with plural "sisters")
We can eliminate options C, D, & E because they use a singular verb with the plural Brontë sisters.
There were no Xs or Ys = CORRECT
There were not Xs or Ys = INCORRECT
idiom: there were no X's or Y's.
(A) were no Jane Austens or Brontë sisters ("were" works with both items because they're both plural)
(C) was not Jane Austen nor the Brontë sisters (singular "was" doesn't work with plural "sisters")
We can eliminate options C, D, & E because they use a singular verb with the plural Brontë sisters.
There were no Xs or Ys = CORRECT
There were not Xs or Ys = INCORRECT
NO = NOT A/ NOT ANY
有没有友友解释一下这里为什么用复数不用单数呢，不是前面有个no吗？
Jane Austens们
idiom: there were no X's or Y's.
Jane Austens是复数，就近原则选were
没有简·奥斯汀们和勃朗特姐妹们 都是复数 要用were 不能用was 因为
idiom: there were no X's or Y's.
(A) were no Jane Austens or Brontë sisters ("were" works with both items because they're both plural)
(C) was not Jane Austen nor the Brontë sisters (singular "was" doesn't work with plural "sisters")
We can eliminate options C, D, & E because they use a singular verb with the plural Brontë sisters.
There were no Xs or Ys = CORRECT
There were not Xs or Ys = INCORRECT
idiom: there were no X's or Y's.
(A) were no Jane Austens or Brontë sisters ("were" works with both items because they're both plural)
(C) was not Jane Austen nor the Brontë sisters (singular "was" doesn't work with plural "sisters")
We can eliminate options C, D, & E because they use a singular verb with the plural Brontë sisters.
There were no Xs or Ys = CORRECT
There were not Xs or Ys = INCORRECT
idiom: there were no X's or Y's.
题目多划线了一个there。
no=not any/not a；there were no sth=there were not any/a sth，不能说there were not sth
在C以前，法国没有女作家是贵族；那里没有简·奥斯汀们和勃朗特姐妹们，也许是因为那里没有牧师们的女儿。
强调像简奥斯汀和勃朗特姐妹那样的女作家，一类人而不是特指，用Jane Austens更优。
看句末可知用no 排除BCD
看选项可知
“there were no authors of the Jane Austen or Brontë sister type.”
(A) were no Jane Austens or Brontë sisters ("were" works with both items because they're both plural)
(C) was not Jane Austen nor the Brontë sisters (singular "was" doesn't work with plural "sisters")
We can eliminate options C, D, & E because they use a singular verb with the plural Brontë sisters.
There were no Xs or Ys = CORRECT
There were not Xs or Ys = INCORRECT
1）
no是“没有”，not是“不是”的意思，这里用没有，排除b/c/d的not。
or表示平行，no没必要再次出现，排除e
2）
Idiom: there were no X's or Y's.
后面是sisters，所以前面用复数
perhaps后面的句子用的是there were no...，所以前面也用no
我来试着翻译一下这句话：
在colette之前，法国女性作家都是贵族，比如谁谁谁；那里没有像jane austen或bronte sisters的人，因为那里没有神职人员的女儿。（补充背景信息，jane austen和bronte sisters都是英国女作家，一个写了傲慢与偏见，一个写了简爱，她们都是神职人员的女儿，不属于贵族。）
no是“没有”，not是“不是”的意思，这里用没有，排除b/c/d的not。
or表示平行，no没必要再次出现，排除e
并不是no不需要再次出现，出现了也没错，是was和were的问题
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