求助：prep1-36 比较结构

WayneCH2012

36Thomas Eakins's powerful style and his choices of subject--the advances in modern surgery,
the discipline of sport, the strains of individuals in tension with society or even with
themselves--was as disturbing to his own time as it is compelling for ours.

(A) was as disturbing to his own time as it is
(B) were as disturbing to his own time as they are
(C) has been as disturbing in his own time as they are
(D) had been as disturbing in his own time as it was
(E) have been as disturbing in his own time as  
答案选B。这道题读起来怪怪的，Thomas Eakins's powerful style and his choices of subject were as disturbing to his own time as they are compelling for ours。个人认为disturbing前面的as不需要，然后就是Thomas Eakins's powerful style and his choices of subject were disturbing to his own time 和they are compelling for ours这2句话之间的比较。disturbing前加了一个as反倒让人弄不清这句话是啥意思呢。恳请牛牛帮我分析一下这句话。

starry1008

as……as结构，disturbing前的as不能省。多读，习惯就好。

TE这个人有力的写作风格和他对主题的选择，在他那个时代引起的震动一点也不亚于在我们今天引起的赞叹。

或者：
TE这个人有力的写作风格和他对主题的选择，在他那个时代引起的震动正如在今天给我们带来的巨大赞叹和吸引力。

disturbing和compelling很难找到对等的词来翻译，但确实用得非常美，作文可借鉴。

一孔之见。

WayneCH2012

谢谢解答哈。
但是第一个as后面是一个形容词，第二个as后面却是一个句子，这样岂不是违反了平行原则？

WayneCH2012

自己再顶一下。
1 B答案，第一个as后面是一个形容词，第二个as后面却是一个句子，违反了平行原则？
2 未划线部分的themselves和划线部分的they指代对象不一致，这样也可行么？
呼吁牛牛解答，这题都困扰我2个月了

Hamburger530

我也来问，这个as as的用法好奇怪。
为什么不能选E，as disturbing in his own times as (have been) compelling for ours.
我觉得as 后面跟动名词的形式很对等啊~~
求解~~~