In 1675, Louis XIV established the Parisian seamstresses’ guild, the first independent all-female guild created in over 200 years. Guild members could make and sell women’s and children’s clothing, but were prohibited from producing men’s clothing or dresses for court women. Tailors resented the ascension of seamstresses to guild status; seamstresses, meanwhile, were impatient with the remaining restrictions on their right to clothe women.

The conflict between the guilds was not purely economic, however.  A 1675 police report indicated that since so many seamstresses were already working illegally, the tailors were unlikely to suffer additional economic damage because of the seamstresses’ incorporation. Moreover, guild membership held very different meanings for tailors and seamstresses. To the tailors, their status as guild members overlapped with their role as heads of household, and entitled them to employ as seamstresses female family members who did not marry outside the trade. The seamstresses, however, viewed guild membership as a mark of independenc the patriarchal family.  Their guild was composed not of family units but of individual women who enjoyed unusual legal and economic privileges. At the conflict’s center was the issue of whether tailors’ female relatives should be identified as family members protected by the tailors’ guild or as individuals under the jurisdiction of the seamstresses’ guild.

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It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following was true of seamstresses employed by relatives who were members of the tailors’ guild?

A.      They were instrumental in convincing Louis XIV to establish the seamstresses’ guild.

B.       They were rarely allowed to assist master tailors in the production of men’s clothing.

C.      They were considered by some tailors to be a threat to the tailors’ monopoly.

D.      They did not enjoy the same economic and legal privileges that members of the seamstresses’ guild enjoyed.

E.       They felt their status as working women gave them a certain degree of independence from the patriarchal family.

请问这道题怎么选D呢，我觉得选E更好啊。E有定位的，就是黄色的部分。请NN解释一下。

我的看法： 题干里seamtresses employed by relatives who were members of the tailors' guild, "who"应该就近修饰relatives，所以这里的seamtresses并不是tailor's guild里的，而是conflict焦点（文中最后一句话），也就是没有定论，究竟应该算tailor's guild还是seamtress' guild,所以无法判断选D。

期待大牛解惑。。

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It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following was true
of seamstresses employed by relatives who were members of the tailors’
guild?

题干中的seamstresses指的是被tailor employ as seamstresses female family members 那些。

D.      They did not enjoy the same economic and legal privileges that members of the seamstresses’ guild enjoyed.

文中最后提到，根据争论的焦点，这些employed ss能否成为guild membership of ss guild 还没有定论。所以作为member of ss guild 才能享受的privileges，他们自然就没法享受了。

E.       They felt their status as working women gave them a certain degree of independence from the patriarchal family.

那些 viewed guild membership as a certain degree of independence 的ss都是ss guild中的member, 而题干中提到的ss还没有被定为member of ss guild。

另外，   entitled them to employ as seamstresses female family members who did not marry outside the trade
                中的as是否有些提示呢，只是作为ss，不算真正意义的ss, 因为在tailor圈里。这也是文中最后争论的焦点。