语法题

benny1024UID: 2202602

1.OG150页第5题
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* _7 K* k! K: c  mDelgado's dilemma was like many other young writers: he had to choose between assured publication in a student magazine and probable rejection by a popular magazine.

+ b9 `1 x4 k! H划线的地方为什么错了？应该怎么改？

2.Quick to take advantage of Melanie Johnson's preoccupation with the history of the Johnson family, the genealogist proposed investigating that history--for a large fee.
这句话怎么翻译？谢谢

3.The dolls in the collection, all more than two hundred years old, had been carfully carved for children long since gone.
5 p# s' o+ A% r中的long since gone怎么理解？
% V# b; z( F- ^A：long在此修饰for children，表示“很长一段时间以来就作为儿童的玩具”
3 Y  e" ~! ]) X1 gsince gone表示“拿开”或者“被拿走”是“since it has been gone”的省略形式，具体由上下文看。
# m7 Z$ A* \' n- K全句的意思是“收藏中的那个超过200年历史的洋娃娃，自从被拿走以来已经被精心雕刻并作为儿童玩具很久了。
& i9 ^) Q+ n0 i, zB：还是把long since 理解成“从前, 往昔”
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) t7 [0 T+ X6 t0 x9 W* i: X, l4 J+ V4.Though the statistics on their experiment were neither precise or significant, the biochemists still published them.
- C" n5 Y- y! v4 ]/ h答案把or改成nor这个比较容易，但可以用were吗？我觉的应该是was，因为statistics是单数。

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vanessa20UID: 2479494

我看懂第一个问题我来试试;d:
应该是错在比较对象的错误，题目把D的dilemma 和 young writers 比了，正确因该是他们dilemma的比较

benny1024UID: 2202602

恩。。。
有道理。。。
我怎么读了那么多遍都没读出来呢？:confused:

vanessa20UID: 2479494

呵呵，会不会是刚开始做不习惯?
$ H( R+ i: ~$ b6 O4 _这种题型经常出现，都是换汤不换药，:loveliness:

benny1024UID: 2202602

后面的题大家帮帮忙:loveliness:

benny1024UID: 2202602

恩？
不对啊。。。
这样的话怎么改？