OG11 平行的省略求教

puzzledog

13. As Hurricane Hugo approached the Atlantic coast, it increased dramatically in
strength, becoming the tenth most intense hurricane to hit the United States
mainland in the twentieth century and most intense since Camille in 1969.
(A) most intense since Camille in 1969
(B) most intense after Camille in 1969
(C) the most intense since Camille in 1969
(D) the most intense after 1969, which had Camille
(E) since 1969 and Camille, the most intense
答案是C毋庸置疑，但OG给的解释却很让我纠结：Because tenth appears between the and most intense in the first phrase, the must be repeated in the second phrase: the most intense
这是否就是说如果前面不是the tenth most intense，而是the most intense后面的the 就可以省略？有这么省略的么？求NN指教~~

wanghongl

这题所要表达的意思就是：飓风H成为袭击美国的第十个最强烈的飓风和从1969年起最强烈的飓风。这里要表达一个从1969年至今的延续，since明显好于after，BD错。E选项reverse the order，就显得很awkward，特别还是在平行结构中。（GMAT中reverse the order一般都被视为awkward，能用正常语序表达就用正常语序，能用主动就别用被动。）



再看AC：句子主干是：AS….，it …..，becoming the tenth most intense hurricane…and most intense… 形容最高级前面要加the大家都知道，A选项的意思是平行结构把the给省略了，但是这里不能省略。为什么呢？因为前面的the 与most intense之间还有一个tenth啊！省略的必须是相同而且可以make sense的意群，并且不可以跳跃结构来省略。

如果这里是：the most intense hurricane…. and most intense….就可以（当然这样此处逻辑意思是不通的，我只是说一下这个语法），好比the largest and oldest living organism on Earth，是可以的。

movingever

我还没联想到那道题呢，你说得没错！

in general, here are some indicators that you've actually mastered a problem:
* can you explain it to someone else (who at least understands the underlying concepts)?
* can you solve it in more than one way?
* can you write a similar problem of your own?  (not so similar that it's essentially the same problem with different numbers, but similar enough that it uses the same sort of concepts)


其实我跟你解释，也是在梳理自己的思路，然后证明我懂了。

puzzledog

我明白了~~我记得你以前跟我说过的一道比较:more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than were born under it这是错的，因为有三个元素born、women、under the age of 30，跳过第二个直接关联第一个和第三个就不make sense.

这里同样也是直接越过tenth不make sense~~果然相同的知识点无所不在~~

我知道the largest and oldest是对的，今天看了半天都觉得the most的the怎么着省略了都怪异，听你一讲全明白了~~

你真强大，怎么什么都知道。你长我6岁，6年以后我要是有你这样就往死里满足了~~

movingever

As Hurricane Hugo approached __, it increased in strength, becoming
(1) the tenth most intense  hurricane to hit the US mainland in the 20th century
and
(2) the most intense                                                              since Camille in 1969

See the parallelism? "the tenth" corresponds to "the" - this is why we need "the" at the beginning and thus narrow down to C and D.

Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth ...

See?  In this sentence it's fine to omit "the" before "oldest", because actually "the" is shared by the two words - "largest" and "oldest".  In other words, here "largest" and "oldest" are parallel.