大全-667spanning 的主语问题

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667. Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.

(A) Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as

(B) Muller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as

(C) Muller’s career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being

(D) Muller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being（B）

(E) the career of Muller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of

为什么A不对呀。我觉得主语应该是人啊。SPANNING表示时间过了50年，FM这个人才开始他的事业。

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The best answer, B, uses the logical and grammatically correct construction. Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Miiller’s career began... and culminated. Note that the noun phrase appearing after the comma is modified by Spanning and serves as the subject of began and culminated. Choice A produces an illogical statement by placing Friedrich Miiller in this subject position. Choice C corrects this error but produces an unidiomatic construction by using apprenticeship of being instead of apprenticeship as. Choice D repeats both this error and the subject error of A. D and E needlessly change the simple past tense began to the past perfect had begun and the present perfect has begun, respectively, and E uses apprenticeship of, which is unidiomatic in this context.

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Spanning more than fifty years时间的跨度，这里只能指人的职业时间长短，修饰人显然不合适。