※ 引述《biggermao (Aaron)》之铭言：
: His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine
: homeland, far outside the range of present-day
: glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the
: concept of an age in which great ice sheets had
: existed in now currently temperate areas.
: (A) in which great ice sheets had existed in now
: currently temperate areas
: (B) in which great ice sheets existed in what are
: now temperate areas
: (C) when great ice sheets existed where there were
: areas now temperate
: (D) when great ice sheets had existed in current
: temperate areas
: (E) when great ice sheets existed in areas now that
: are temperate
: OA is (B)
: 请问关于(B)，句中what不是等于the things that吗？
: 这里things指的应该就是areas，那么句末的ares不就是多余的吗?
不会多余, 因为the thing重点会用that子句来告知读者这是什么东西.
: 此外关于(C)，OG解释这句wordy and confusing，我的认知是，
: where = in which，而which指的是areas，所以句末的areas就显得wordy，
: 不知道这样解释对不对。
不对, in which是形容词子句修饰语, 一定往左修饰, 不会往右, 所以which往左
最接近名词是ice sheets, 并非areas; 所以C的问题主要是违反修辞精神, 可以不用
虚字尽量避免用虚字的there be结构
: 谢谢大家！
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