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ycning

刘振民的书 E7-37. The book pick (C); but is it a problem to put "armed" after "Hungary"?
I think (B) is better, what do you think?

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[U]Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Bela Bartok and Zooltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only[/U] with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity.
(A) Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Bela Bartok and Zooltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only
(B) In 1905, Bela Bartok and Zooltan Kodaly, traveling the back roads of Hungary, began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were only armed
(C) In 1905, Bela Barotok and Zooltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only
(D) Having traveled the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Bela Bartok and Zooltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology; they were only armed
(E) Bela Bartok and Zooltan Kodaly, in 1905 began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary, arming themselves only

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aprilsky

BY USING A COMMA, Choice B MAKES TWO COMPLETED SENTENCES, "BEGUN...,AND THEY WERE.... "
CHOICE C, AVOIDS THIS PROBLEM BY USING  TWO NOUN PHRASES ," TRAVALING....ARMED....."

APRILSKY个人认为选项B并没有什么错误，只是选项C用词组作为修饰成分较为炼洁。
C中，...TRAVELING THE BACK ROAD OF HUNGARY ARMED (逻辑关系上，此处ARMED的修饰对象只能是人，BELA AND ZOOLTAN)

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-12-23 9:11:18编辑过]

atongmu

B中they were only armed是冗余表达，不如C好。