Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better poet than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed by his success.
Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better poet than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed by his success.
Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning was considered among her contemporaries as a better poet than her husband, she was later overshadowed by his success.
Later overshadowed by the success of her husband, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry had been considered among her contemporaries to be better than that of her husband.
Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning's success was later overshadowed by that of her husband, among her contemporaries she was considered the better poet.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry was considered among her contemporaries as better than her husband, but her success was later overshadowed by his.
题目分析:
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选项分析:
A选项:当consider意为“看作(regard as)”时,只能用consider A B,而不能用consider A to be B。当consider意为“认为”时,只能用consider A to be B而不能用consider A B。看起来是在考查语法,实则不然,这背后是在考查考生的逻辑推理能力。在原理上近似于不定式和名词的区别。如果在consider的宾语和宾语的补足语间添加to be,则to be B就变成了不定式短语。我们知道,当consider表示“看作”时,其约束力较弱。看作是一种客观的说法,对“A是B”这个事件没有主观的控制。但当consider表示“认为,以为”时,显然,其约束力较强。因为“认为”这个动作有较深的主观色彩,其宾补部分必然要用不定式来表达。
本题中的consider是“看作”的意思,即,EBB被看作是她那个时代最好的诗人。
B选项:比较对象不对等。在逻辑上应该是Elizabeth Barrett Browning的“成功”被她丈夫的成功掩盖。
C选项:later overshadowed by the success of her husband是过去分词短语,做伴随状语,其主语为Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry。但在逻辑上,被掩盖的应该是她的成功,而不是她的诗歌。
D选项:Correct. 本选项在逻辑和语法上均是正确的。
E选项:比较对象有误。不能用Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry和her husband做比较。
关于判断谓语动词约束力的问题,之前课堂上讲过看法类动词在被动语态下约束力强,我认为consider也属于看法类动词,为什么不适用这个原则呢?
看法类,可以包括consider也可以不包括。你要看consider是什么意思。如果consider是考虑的意思的话,那身后必须用to be。如果consider是看作(regard as)的意思,那就不是看法类动词,身后绝对不能用to be。
为虾米我感觉 consider 做【考虑】理解时应该是约束力弱用-ing呢。。。
例如:I consider working with him. 这个 consider 不能理解成【regard as】吧?
consider A to be B和consider doing sth中的consider还是有很大的意思的区别的。consider+doing是我正在思考一件事,而consider A to be B是表示把A认为成B。这“思考”和“认为”肯定约束力不同嘛。
所以,回到此题的consider,不是【思考】的意思,而是【看作、认为】的意思,那么应该是约束力强接【to be】才对?
是否应该理解为【consider A B】是一个固定搭配,中间省略了【to be】?
当然不是!consider的意思,如果是“看作”,那就是consider A B;如果是“认为”,那就是consider A to be B;如果是思考的话,那身后都不会连接两个宾语的,不在考虑这类似的考虑范围内。
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OG里有原题人家就用的是consider A to be B。
A选项解释中,【看作】和【认为】的不同之处在哪里?
例如:Helr被看作是中国最优秀GMAT讲师;Helr被认为是中国最优秀的GMAT讲师。这两句话的意思不是一样的吗?
“认为”是有个人的主观色彩的,暗含了可能实际并不是这样的;“看作”是客观的,并没有暗示实际不是。
恩。本题语境中陈述的是一个客观事实【EBB是better poet】,没有暗含可能不是的意思,没有主观色彩,所以不能用不定式。
已解惑,灰常感谢!
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