25 very large pieces too heavy to move, virtually all surviving Angkorian statues, wood carvings and artifacts have been replaced with copies.
答案:(A) Except for
Except for 表示「除…之外(其餘全部)」,是排除的邏輯:除了大到搬不動的文物之外,吳哥窟現存的雕像、木雕與文物幾乎全被複製品取代;In spite of(儘管)、Owing to(由於)、In addition to(除了…還有,是累加)都不合。
答對率 23%。
最容易選的是 In addition to——它與 Except for 的中文都能翻成「除了」,邏輯卻相反:Except for 是「扣掉」(整體中減去例外),In addition to 是「加上」(在既有的之外再添一項)。中文的「除了」同時涵蓋兩種意思,這是我們最容易弄錯的地方。
看主要子句是不是在講「全部」。本句是 virtually all surviving Angkorian statues… have been replaced with copies(現存的吳哥雕像幾乎全被複製品取代)——出現了 virtually all,代表這是一個整體,前面那格自然是要扣掉搬不動的大型文物。看到 all、everything、everyone、no one,就往「排除」想。
except for(整體扣除例外)、other than(不同於、另一類)、in addition to(額外再加)。
except for(除…之外,整體扣除例外)、with the exception of(除…之外)、apart from(除…之外)、in addition to(除…之外還有,額外累加)、in spite of(儘管)。
The world's largest collection of Khmer sculpture resides at Angkor, the former royal capital of Cambodia. The 7,000 pieces—full statues, heads and carved inscriptions—are breathtaking not only for their individual beauty, but also for 21 they represent: a road map to the origins of much of Southeast Asian culture.
But the collection is not in a museum, and it is not open 22 visitors. It is held in unknown, guarded warehouses 23 only a few people can see it. These people assembled it by removing figures from the ruins of Cambodia's world-famous temples and replacing them with hollow, concrete 24. For the most part, these are hard to distinguish from the originals.
Clever art thieves? No, these "art thieves" work for the Angkor Conservancy. 25 very large pieces too heavy to move, virtually all surviving Angkorian statues, wood carvings and artifacts have been replaced with copies.