求问一道36套的阅读题

NorthernJayUID: 3641715

A Marxist sociologist has argued that racism stems from the class struggle that is unique to the capitalist system—that racial prejudice is generated by capitalists as a means of controlling workers. His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States, but his definition of racial prejudice as "racially-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition," can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe. However, since prejudice against these latter peoples was not inspired by capitalists, he has to reason that such antagonisms were not really based on race. He disposes thusly (albeit unconvincingly) of both the intolerance faced by Jews before the rise of capitalism and the early twentieth-century discrimination against Oriental people in California, which, inconveniently, was instigated by workers.

According to the passage, the Marxist sociologist‘s chain of reasoning required him to assert that prejudice toward Oriental people in California was
Adirected primarily against the Chinese
Bsimilar in origin to prejudice against the Jews
Cunderstood by Oriental people as ethnic competition
Dprovoked by workers
Enonracial in character

请教大家一下，为什么D不对呢？而且特别想知道最后这句话中 which was instigated by workers 指的究竟是Marxist的观点，还是事实上的普遍观点。楼主一直很困惑这道题。虽然知道答案是E但是一直说服不了自己为什么D是错的。

岳然UID: 3654715

简化一下句子：He disposes of both A and B. 如何处置的呢？—— “thusly (albeit unconvincingly)” 这里的“thusly”，指的就是前面一句“he has to reason that such antagonisms were not really based on race.”

而“which, inconveniently, was instigated by workers”是用来修饰B这件事，而不是dispose of的。（定语从句只能修饰名词性成分；如果说是修饰前面整个句子，就变成了“他如此处理这两件事”是“由工人煽动的”，说不通）。inconveniently是说，B是由工人煽动（而不是由资本主义造成）的这个事实，对他的推理造成了麻烦。（他认为歧视是资本主义造成的）

所以这里的逻辑就是，这个马克思主义社会学家认为“种族歧视是由资本家挑起而作为控制工人的工具”，但犹太人在资本主义出现之前就受到种种不公，以及20世纪早期对东方人的歧视是由工人——而不是资本家——煽动的事实，让他不得不认定这些歧视是和种族没有关系的。（种族歧视是资本主义引起的，所以不是资本主义引起的不是种族歧视……）

NorthernJayUID: 3641715

岳然 发表于 2015-9-24 23:06
简化一下句子：He disposes of both A and B. 如何处置的呢？—— “thusly (albeit unconvincingly)” 这里 ...

对对对，如果是非限制性定语从句的话就不能理解了。所以只能是修饰的后面的成分。那这样的话，就是说后面的对东方人的歧视实际上是由工人引起的（并不是Marxis的观点），对吧？

另外就是，那这个地方这个句子删掉这个定语从句之后就好奇怪啊。不就变成了他处置了A和B，总感觉好像少了点什么。。

岳然UID: 3654715

NorthernJay 发表于 2015-9-25 14:52
对对对，如果是非限制性定语从句的话就不能理解了。所以只能是修饰的后面的成分。那这样的话，就是说后面 ...

1. 没错
2. dispose of要放在上下文里来理解，直接翻译成中文“处置”确实有点奇怪，不过如果理解成 = deal with 的话，就比较说得通了: 他必须推论这些敌意并非是基于种族的——而他就是这样deal with那两件事的。翻译成日常口语就是： and that's how he deals with those two matters. :-)

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NorthernJayUID: 3641715

岳然 发表于 2015-9-25 15:23
1. 没错
2. dispose of要放在上下文里来理解，直接翻译成中文“处置”确实有点奇怪，不过如果理解成 = ...

嗯，谢谢啦。:lol

NorthernJayUID: 3641715

岳然 发表于 2015-9-25 15:23
1. 没错
2. dispose of要放在上下文里来理解，直接翻译成中文“处置”确实有点奇怪，不过如果理解成 = ...

嗯，谢谢啦。:lol

NorthernJayUID: 3641715

岳然 发表于 2015-9-25 15:23
1. 没错
2. dispose of要放在上下文里来理解，直接翻译成中文“处置”确实有点奇怪，不过如果理解成 = ...

嗯，谢谢啦。:lol

NorthernJayUID: 3641715

岳然 发表于 2015-9-25 15:23
1. 没错
2. dispose of要放在上下文里来理解，直接翻译成中文“处置”确实有点奇怪，不过如果理解成 = ...

嗯，谢谢啦。:lol