prep 63

mingminglouer

63. When drafting the Declaration of Sentiments that was adopted at the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Conventions in 1848, included in it by the author, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a call for female enfranchisement.

A, When drafting the Declaration of Sentiments that was adopted at the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Conventions in 1848, included in it by the author, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a call for female enfranchisement.

B. Including a call for female enfranchisement, a draft of the Declaration of Sentiments was adopted at the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Conventions in 1848 that Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote.

C. When the Declaration of Sentiments drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton was adopted at the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848, a call for female enfranchisement had been included in it .

D. A call for female enfranchisement, included in Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s draft of the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848, that was adopted by the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention.

E. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments that was adopted at the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848, she included in it a call for female enfranchisement.

选E，并且，解释是E项中的it 优先指代it, 我的问题是it 为什么优先指代it? 不应该是根据就近原则指代Convention吗？

huangsiyan

to simply the sentence:
When Elizath drafted the declaration, she included in it a call.
the convention is under the "that...in 1848" clause which also modifies the declaration.
therefore, it must refer to declaration.
clear?

newolder

近原则指代 only applies to "which/when/how/what/..." clause and ",.....," phrase within the main sentence.

the "WHEN" here is a conjuntion, 2 main clauses here are parallel.

example:
When I buy a book which talks about funny stories, she also buy it.
it won't be referring "stories" here, will it?

lanshichao92

这句话的基本上看懂了，可是谁能翻译意思，基本上不懂在讲什么

foreverluke

貌似C有歧义吧，也可能是指convention，并且原文强调了author一词，C里没有写明动作的发出者是谁，还是被动，所以相比之下E里面有she，也一定程度上会削弱歧义吧，个人理解