Shanxi is on the north of Henan.
山西在河南的北面。
North Korea is to the east of China.
朝鮮在中國的東邊。
There is a river north of our village.
我們村莊北面有一條小河。
注意：把表示方位、地點的介詞或副詞及短語放在句首時,句子用倒裝語序。
East of our school lies a railway.
我們學校東面有條鐵路。
In the west of the city is the house.
那房子在城市的西部。
2. In terms of size and population, how big is the European Union compared with China?
與中國相比，在大小及人口方面,歐盟有多大？
compare......with...... 把……與……相比
If you compare her work with his, you?ll find hers is much better.
要是把他倆的工作比較一下，就會發現她的好得多。
compare......to...... 把……比作……
compared to / with...... 與……相比(常作狀語)
Poets compared death to sleep.
詩人把死亡比作睡覺。
Compared with/to many women, she was indeed very lucky.
與許多婦女相比，她的確很幸運。
3. The expanded European Union has a population of more than half a billion people, twice as big as the population of the United States.
擴大了的歐盟人口超過5億，相當于美國人口的兩倍。
倍數+as +形容詞(副詞)+as
This big stone is three times as heavy as that one.
這塊大石頭的重量是那塊的3倍。