3.詳細解說
1.“compare sth./sb. with sth./sb.”表示“把某物(某人)跟某物(某人)作比較”,例如:The police compared the suspect's
fingerprints with those found at the crime scene.(警方把嫌疑犯的指紋和犯罪現場上發現的指紋作了比較。)注意,“compare
sth./sb. to sth./sb.”則表示“把某物(某人)比作某物(某人)”,例如:Davies' style of writing has been compared to Dickens。
(戴維斯的寫作風格被比作為狄更斯的寫作風格。)
2.在“...and you will see completely.”一句中,“see”意為“明白,清楚”,“completely”相當于“totally”。
4.文化洗禮
英語中“倍數”的比較方法
前面我們學了一些基本的表示比較的說法,此外還有一種常用的比較方法,那就是倍數比較。英語中表示倍數比較的說法主要有以下幾種。
1.A+be+倍數+形容詞比較級+than+B.例:
The Yangtze River is almost twice longer than the Pearl River.
(長江差不多比珠江長兩倍。)
The dictionary is exactly five times more expensive than that one.
(這本字典比那本恰好貴5倍。)
2.A+be+倍數+as+形容詞原級+as+B.例:
This tree is three times as tall as that one.
(這棵樹是那棵樹的三倍高。)
His father is twice as old as he.
(他父親的年紀是他兩倍大。)
3.A+be+倍數+the+計量名詞+of+B.例:
The newly broadened square is four times the size of the previous one.
(新擴建的廣場面積是之前的四倍大。)
4.The+計量名詞+of+A+ be+倍數+that+of+B.上面那個例句套用這這個句式就是:
The size of the newly broadened square is four times that of the previous one.
adj. 相關的,有親屬關系的