XY13第41题
-Q41. 大全987-830The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, weather conditions that could not be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had anticipated.
(A) weather conditions that could not be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had
(B) weather conditions that cannot be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than
(C) unforeseeable weather conditions, and pilot errors are the cause of much larger deposits of spray than they had
(D) weather conditions that are not foreseeable, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than
(E) unforeseeable weather conditions, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had
我选了E，答案是B，请问为什么than后面可以直接跟anticipate? than 后面直接跟 anticipated 是因为省略了主语和 had been。这里省略了主语是因为主语不明确 (people? sprayer? planner?)，在这样的情况下，省略主语和 had been，只剩下个 participle 做定语是很普遍的用法。 是不是应该理解成the deposits anticipated, 就像用poor 来代表穷人一样 . . . pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than anticipated 扩展后是：
. . . pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than anticipated [by people involved in the operaion]. 但是这个 people 是很笼统的，句子没有资料让人知道具体指谁。英文常常会有这样的情况出现，例如：They say that he is a terrible boss, but he has always been very kind to me. 这个 they 就是泛指。在这题里面 anticipated 的施动者也是这样的不明确，因此可以省略就省略掉。 这种没有规则的语法规则经常折磨我
anyway, 谢谢 agree 2nd floor. that's the way for omitting
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