Question

求大神帮我翻译一道GRE填空， The author argues for serious tre

求大神帮我翻译一道GRE填空， The author argues for serious treatment of such arts as crochet and needlework, finding in too many art historians a cultural blindness traceable to their prejudice against textiles as a medium in which women artists predominate.

Answer 1

作者提出要要认真对待诸如钩针编织及刺绣等工艺，结果发现许多艺术史学家存在文化盲从的现象，这要源于他们对纺织业的偏见，因为这一行业是由妇女艺术家所主导的。
分析：
[主语] The author [谓语] argues for [宾语] serious treatment of such arts as crochet and needlework, [作状语，修饰前面整个句子] finding in too many art historians [find宾语] a cultural blindness [宾补] _______ to their _________ textiles as a medium in which women artists predominate.

再看一下几个选项的含义：
A. traceable（起源于，可追踪的） prejudice against（偏见）
B. opposed（反对，反抗） distrust of（不相信，不信任）
C. referring.（谈及，提及，涉及） need for（需要，需求）
D. reduced（减少的，简化的） respect for（尊敬，敬重）
E. corresponding（相应的，一致的） expertise in（专长）

分析一下主句：
The author argues for serious treatment of such arts as crochet and needlework.
argue for是“论证，支持，赞成”的意思；
serious有很多含义，在这里是“严肃的，须认真对待的”意思；
treatment 是“对待，处理，论述”的意思。
主句大意为：作者提出要要认真对待诸如钩针编织及刺绣等工艺。

接下来分析状语部分：
finding in too many art historians a cultural blindness _______ to their _________ textiles as a medium in which women artists predominate.

finding in too many art historians a cultural blindness由这句话可知，很多艺术史学家存在文化盲从现象；
their指代的是art historians，所以第二空空格处所填词语在感情色彩上应与a blindness相对应；在语义上也应相符。
need，respect， expertise均为中性或含褒义色彩的词。所以可以先排除。
剩下A，B两项就容易做出选择了，从语义上判断，prejudice比distrust 更适合。是偏见导致了文化盲从而不是由于不信任引起的。

Answer 2

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