OG12 117题中these用法

alexgong

117.    George Sand (Aurore Lucile Dupin) was one of the first
European writers to consider the rural poor to be
legitimate subjects for literature and portray these
with sympathy and respect in her novels.



(A)        to be legitimate subjects for literature and
portray these

(B)        should be legitimate subjects for literature and
portray these

(C)        as being legitimate subjects for literature and
portraying them

(D)        as if they were legitimate subjects for literature
and portray them

(E)        legitimate subjects for literature and to portray
them


我想知道这道题中these的用法，OG上的解释是：These (pl. of this) is a demonstrative pronoun, and here it is unclear what it is pointing to as its antecedent: Subjects is the nearest plural noun antecedent, but these could also point to something not in the sentence, an unknown noun.

请问these和them的用法有什么不同啊？

templars

没想明白，如果按这样解释的话，那these岂不是在所有句子里都不能用了，因为无论放在哪里，these都有可能指示句中没有出现的名词。何解？

Claudinethj

them 用来指代前文出现过的名词，即此处的rural poor ，而these指代时后面要跟名词，比如these rural poor 才行，不知对否。。。

alexgong

嗯，解释的更严谨了！！谢谢了

davidliuscu

恩。我觉得是个很好的解释。这个题我也错了。。

cherryserena

貌似是them是宾格，所以指代前面宾语；these是主格，指代离these最近的主格既此句主语，抑或these还可指代句子之外的东西。所以一定要用them
个人浅见。我是这么理解的。不一定对

alexgong

谢谢，明白了！！！

bull11389

就是说them一定指代句中提到过的，但是these既能指代句中提到的，也能指代句子之外的东西，容易混淆，所以按照不歧义原则，用them最清晰