OG11-59 为什么用existed in what are now

lilingfeng

59. His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose* concept of an age in which great ice sheets' existed in now currently temperate areas.



A) in which great ice sheets had existed: currently temperate areas



(B) in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas



(C) when great ice sheets existed where there were areas now temperate



(D) when great ice sheets had existed in current temperate areas   




(E) when great ice sheets existed in areas now that are temperate
答案是B基本没有问题了，只是看着existed in what are now temperate areas有些别扭，感觉用existed in where are now temperate areas才正确，毕竟是指代一个地点，谁能指导一下，谢谢了

dimder

不是很确定

应该是existed where temperate areas are standing now

lilingfeng

谢谢.

我看了一些讨论说过existed in currently temperate areas是可以的。

只是不明白  existed in what are now temperate areas 中 是个什么用法

franker

in+what=where,in后面需要加一个地点名词，用what指代。楼主不要通过中文的意思来理解。在英文的词性中，in后面需要加名词，而where是一个副词。