【求助】一道机经题，大家来讨论讨论答案

怕影响思路，就先不贴答案，不难，但是觉得答案不对
小白，所以恳请大家多多帮忙吖，谢谢
We should be more ______ than we often are when making claims about antiquity—for example, the common statement, “The ancient Athenians invented democracy,” is simply not true when put like that.

A. skeptical

B. credulous

C. precise

D. trusting

E. equivocal

F. circumspect

我选CF，B是轻信，不对，但是A没法说服自己，觉得语意上也可以

wyang9311 发表于 2019-1-4 03:36
F，because it indicates carefulness and precautions.  A maybe another choice but it sounds too negat ...

A 应该可以毙掉吧，will you be skeptical when you make statement? 这个词是用来形容make claim的。

我觉得f比较合理，when you are making claims about antiquity (something you didn't see by yourself, just hearsay), you should be more circumspect.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/circumspect
circumspect: suggests less fear and stresses the surveying of all possible consequences before acting or deciding.

F，because it indicates carefulness and precautions.  A maybe another choice but it sounds too negative.

我觉得像是 BF？ 更加谨慎

选c precise准确吧？ 不能说“发明”了民主吧， 只能说发明了民主制度。 不能说发明数学， 只能说发现数学定理吧

答案是CF，看来还是自己理解错了，谢谢大家

答案是CF，破折号后面举了一个例子说有一个statement不是真的，所以前面要表达的是“我们应该更true一些”