money与prize的用法区别

问题描述

下面的内容摘自一篇完形填空题：

As one of Britain's largest winnings, Nigel Page and Justine Laycock got their ￡56 million ______ on Saturday.

A. money              B. prize

为什么选择 A 而不是 B？另外，￡56 million 与其后的名词 money 是什么关系？

盼望专家老师分析一下成分关系。非常感谢。

老师答疑

刘老师：

As one of Britain's largest winnings, Nigel Page and Justine Laycock got their ￡56 million ______ on Saturday.

我认为，此题答案应为 prize，而非 money。

从逻辑上讲，money 本身就是“钱”，其定语不应再使用“具体的钱”修饰。不说：$ one thousand money, ￡56 million money，￥100 money。而 prize 是“奖项”，虽然也是“奖金”，但它是一种奖励形式，可以用“具体的钱”修饰，说明奖金的具体数目。例如：

(1) This tops the previous record of194 set last year, when the $1.45 million prize went to Kenyan green activist Wangari Maathai. 此次参与角逐诺贝尔和平奖的人数打破了去年194人的记录，去年，肯尼亚环境保护者旺加里·塔伊最终捧走了145万美元的大奖。

(2) The $10 million prize went to aircraft designer Burt Rutan and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who gave financial backing to the project. 当时，飞机设计师伯特.鲁坦和出资赞助这个项目的微软公司共同创始人保罗.艾伦获得了1千万美元的奖金。

(3) She said she was shocked but proud to learn she had won the $1.3 million prize, to be handed out in Oslo on December 10. 她对自己获奖表示震惊,但当听到将于十二月10号在奥斯陆发放的1.3百万美金时，她又表示非常的开心。

(4) Mueller will receive a $1.4 million prize, a diploma and an invitation to the prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10. 米勒将获得140万美元的奖金，一份证书和一份邀请函，邀请她参加于12月10日在瑞典斯德哥尔摩举行的颁奖仪式。

(5) Ebadi and her colleagues say the government is demanding $400,000 in back taxes on her $1.3 million prize. 伊巴迪和她的同事说，伊朗政府要求她就所获得的130万美元的诺贝尔和平奖奖金补交40万美元的税款。

(6) Netflix has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can do that, but to date, only slightly better than a 9 percent improvement has been achieved. Netflix给能做到这一点的人设置了一个百万的奖励。然而迄今为止也只改善了百分之九稍稍多一点的水平。

(7) Half of the $1.45 million prize will go to Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, who led the Supernova Cosmology Project. 主持超新星宇宙学项目的SaulPerlmutter（来自美国加州大学劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室）将获得145万美元奖金中的一半。

(8) Last fall, Google offered a $30 million prize to any group that lands a robot on the lunar surface before Dec. 31, 2012, travels at least 500 m (1, 640 ft.) and sends back video. 去年秋天，谷歌悬赏3000万美元给任何一个能在2012年12月31日前登上月球、走至少500米并且把影像传回地球的团体。

(9) Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitmz, and Israeli Ada Yonath will share the $1.4 million prize announced Wednesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 瑞典皇家科学院星期三宣布，美国的文卡特拉曼· 拉马克里希南、托马斯·施泰茨和以色列科学家阿达·约纳特共同获得今年的诺贝尔化学奖，他们将分享一百四十万美元的奖金。

(10) The X Prize chairman, Peter Diamandis, expects teams will spend between $2 million and $20 million to earn the $10 million prize. X奖励计划的主席彼得·迪亚曼蒂斯帝，希望各队能花费200万至2,000万来赢得这1,000万奖金。

(11) The McCullars will split the $380 million prize with a winner in Idaho. 麦克拉尔夫妇将与爱达荷州的一位彩民平分3.8亿美元的彩票奖金。

(12) Yunus, who shared in the $1.4 million prize with the Grameen Bank he founded 30 years ago, pioneered the concept of microcredit. 尤努斯和他卅年前创立的乡村银行分享一百四十万美元的奖金。

(13) At age 57 the oldest winner in "Survivor" history, Crowley will take his $1 million prize back home to Portland, Maine. “幸存者”历史上年纪最大的赢家克劳利，在57岁时将带着他的100万美元奖金返回位于波兰缅因州的家。

周老师：

支持，money 更多是指概念，很少和具体的数量放在一起。