本人对于一个问题不弄清楚就十分不舒服 现求助各位大神tpo14中一道阅读题目
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4: Nomadism also subjects pastoralist communities to strict rules of portability. If you are constantly on the move, you cannot afford to accumulate large material surpluses. Such rules limit variations in accumulated material goods between pastoralist households (though they may also encourage a taste for portable goods of high value such as silks or jewelry). So, by and large, nomadism implies a high degree of self-sufficiency and inhibits the appearance of an extensive division of labor. Inequalities of wealth and rank certainly exist, and have probably existed in most pastoralist societies, but except in periods of military conquest, they are normally too slight to generate the stable, hereditary hierarchies that are usually implied by the use of the term class. lnequalities of gender have also existed in pastoralist societies, but they seem to have been softened by the absence of steep hierarchies of wealth in most communities, and also by the requirement that women acquire most of the skills of men, including, often, their military skills.
10 According to paragraph 4, all of the following are true of social inequality in pastoralist societies EXCEPT:
○ It exists and has existed to some degree in most pastoral societies.
○ It is most marked during periods of military conquest.
○ It is expressed in the form of a rigid hierarchy based largely on heredity.
○ It is usually too insignificant to be discussed in terms of class differences.
小弟怎么看怎么觉得是B啊。。。他文中说了except in periods of millitary conquest啊。。。
而且后面有关于c的论述啊。。。 作者: lovebee29 时间: 2010-6-6 22:06:10
but except in periods of military conquest, they are normally too slight to generate the stable, hereditary hierarchies that are usually implied by the use of the term class. except后面紧接着的才是它的内容。
而且有too slight to generate the stable, hereditary hierarchies 说明 pastoralist societies 一般没有stable, hereditary hierarchies。所以C是答案
整句话的意思是,pastoralist societies 一般没有stable, hereditary hierarchies,但是in periods of military conquest, pastoralist societies 可能会产生stable, hereditary hierarchies作者: kimizw00 时间: 2010-6-6 23:15:56
今天刚做了这道题,感觉疑惑重重,看到楼上各位托友的理解,简单说下自己的看法:
问题主要定位于此句的理解上:
Inequalities of wealth and rank certainly exist, and have probably existed in most pastoralist societies, but except in periods of military conquest, they are normally too slight to generate the stable, hereditary hierarchies that are usually implied by the use of the term class.
Inequalities of wealth and rank certainly exist, and have probably existed in most pastoralist societies, but except in periods of military conquest(紫色这一句都是插入语), they(这个指代,指代的是inequalities,不是periods of military) are normally too slight to generate the stable, hereditary hierarchies that are usually implied by the use of the term class.
这句话相当于 Inequalities of wealth and rank certainly exist, and have probably existed in most pastoralist societies, but they are normally too slight to generate the stable, hereditary hierarchies that are usually implied by the use of the term class,except in periods of military conquest.
这句话的大意是:不平等的确存在于大部分的p社会中,但是他们一般不足以行成稳固的,建立在阶级基础上的世袭制,但是除了在军事期间以外。也就是说军事期间是最稳固的