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问

Booth Tarkington's writings were $\frac{\text{A}}{\text{B}}$ very extremely popular, but his conservative values soon dated his works. (TOEFL) D

答案为 B。但不知 very extremely 错在何处。

答

英语里有些副词,如 absolutely, entirely, utterly, extremely 等,是最高程度修饰语。它们不能接受 very 的修饰,也没有比较级。

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