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Like Darwin and his fruitful voyage on the Beagle, Banks’s trip with Captain Coo
Like Darwin and his fruitful voyage on the Beagle, Banks’s trip with Captain Coo
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2024-01-12
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问题
Like Darwin and his fruitful voyage on the Beagle, Banks’s trip with Captain Cook on the Endeavour inspired and shaped his remarkable career in natural science.
选项
A、Like Darwin and his fruitful voyage on the Beagle, Banks’s trip with Captain Cook on the Endeavour inspired and shaped his remarkable career in natural science.
B、Just as Darwin had a fruitful voyage on the Beagle, Banks’s trip with Captain Cook on the Endeavour inspired and shaped a remarkable career as a natural scientist.
C、Like Darwin’s fruitful voyage on the Beagle, Banks’s trip with Captain Cook on the Endeavour inspired and shaped a remarkable career in natural science.
D、Just as Darwin’s fruitful voyage on the Beagle, Banks sailed with Captain Cook on the Endeavour, inspiring and shaping his remarkable career as a natural scientist.
E、Like Darwin’s fruitful voyage on the Beagle, Banks sailed with Captain Cook on the Endeavour, which inspired and shaped a remarkable career in natural science.
答案
C
解析
Parallelism; Diction; Rhetorical construction; Logical predication
Absent relevant context or detailed knowledge about the relevant history, the given sentence seems open to more than one interpretation. Such ambiguity indicates a rhetorical-construction failure. On one interpretation, the given sentence seems aimed at comparing Banks’s sea voyage and Darwin’s with respect to the influence those voyages had on scientific careers—but the given sentence and its alternatives vary in how successfully this comparison is executed. For example, the comparison in the given sentence is presented loosely and somewhat illogically: Bank’s trip is compared with "Darwin and his fruitful voyage." In some variants, just as is used instead of like. These uses of just as fail to make clear the comparison intended. The word like is a preposition that is normally followed by a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun that it governs; just as is normally used as a conjunction, introducing a subordinate clause. Failure to take this distinction into account is a diction error.
A This is ambiguous and for that reason fails rhetorically. The comparison between Banks’s trip and "Darwin and his fruitful voyage" is drawn loosely and somewhat illogically.
B The comparison articulated here is between two disparate facts: Darwin had a fruitful voyage, and Banks’s trip inspired and shaped a scientific career. The expected parallelism between two sea voyages is absent. The conjunction just as is used idiomatically, however.
C Correct. This version articulates the comparison more clearly than any of the other versions. It conveys that Banks’s voyage resembled Darwin’s voyage in one respect: each inspired and shaped a scientific career. The preposition like is used to indicate the resemblance.
D The phrase just as is normally used as a conjunction, introducing a subordinate clause; here the clause, made explicit, is: Just as Darwin’s fruitful voyage on the Beagle [did]. The verb did is implicit. However, this reading creates a nonsensical parallelism that, taken strictly, represents Darwin’s fruitful voyage as having sailed with Captain Cook—a logical-predication issue. A separate point is that the participial phrase inspiring. .. scientist, which modifies Banks, represents Banks as inspiring his own scientific career—probably not the intended meaning.
E The phrase like... Beagle is a prepositional phrase and is nonparallel with the main clause Banks sailed... Endeavor. This failure of parallelism impairs the expression of the intended comparison, which is between Darwin’s voyage and Banks’s. The structure of the sentence also involves a logical-predication error in that it indicates (absurdly) a similarity between a person (Banks) and Darwin’s voyage.
The correct answer is C.
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