Like Bela Bartok, Ruth Crawford not only brought a composers acumen to the
notation of folk music, she also had a marked _____ the task. This was clear in her
agonizing over how far to try to represent the minute details of a performance in a written text, and this ____ makes her work a landmark in ethnomusicology.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A reverence for D fastidiousness
B detachment from E didacticism
C curiosity about F iconoclasm
这道题选A、D。
不理解题中“agonizing over how far to try to represent the minute details of a performance in a written text”里面的how far做什么成分、什么意思?一开始做的时候看到agonizing over how far...,以为题目要表达非常negative的感觉,直接选了B、F。
"agonizing over how far to try to represent the minute details of a performance in a written text" means "he always feels painful and entangled about to which extent the minute detail should be displayed(he can't decide whether he should represent minute details to shallow or deep extent and this really makes him feel painful)". So this characteristic is obviously fastidiousness and the tone of the whole sentence is positive. Thus, A and D is correct.
另外我觉得how far你不比过于纠结,也可以理解为whether he should include few or many minute details.
总之,句子表达的是这个人追求完美的品质