OG11-Review-SC4

fdasun

请教一道简单题 OG-11/Review/SC-4

原题

A survey by XXX showed that in 1986 there were 20,736 female ministers, almost 9 percent of YYY, twice as much as 1977

正确选项是double the figure for 1977

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排除法很容易得知其他四个选项是错误的; 不过，上面正确的选项 --- double是动词还是形容词呢？

（1）如果是动词，显然时态和showed/were不符，且句意错误（不能是survey或者there去double）

（2）如果是形容词，倒装？为什么？句型复原后是什么？

多谢！

denny0518

我有同样的疑惑

请NN指教

creativity

其他选项呢？

Jarod

请LZ或者哪位把原题贴上， 方便讨论解答。

haitai

对阿，是不是还有更好的选项呢。

haitai

原题在这里：

A survey by XXX showed that in 1986 there were 20,736 female ministers, almost 9 percent of YYY, twice as much as 1977.

A: twice as much as 1977
B: twice as many as 1977
C: double what it was in 1977
D: double the figure for 1977
E: a number double that of 1977's

GMAC给的正确答案确实是D。

hsWang

D是正确答案。

这里的double是形容词，英文解释是：twice as big/much/many as something else. 也就是说D答案实际上就是：twice as big as the figure for 1977.

Jarod

仔细看了下， 的确应该是double + 名词/名词从句， 表示两倍关系， 这时double 与 twice 是可互换的，twice+名词 的情况比较常见，类比一下就可以理解了。