43 形容詞的原級(jí) Track37
(1)表示原級(jí)比較的句型:A+as+形容詞或副詞的原級(jí)+as+B。
a. Eyes are as eloquent as lips.
b. You are as lazy as she.
我們也可以說:
c. The work is not as difficult as you think. 這個(gè)工作沒你想的那么難。
d. An adult human must take eight steps to go as far as a giraffe does in one stride. 長(zhǎng)頸鹿邁一步相當(dāng)于成人要邁八步。
e. The world's deepest cave in the mountain is almost three times as deep as the Empire State Building is high.
世界上最深的山洞幾乎是帝國(guó)大廈高度的三倍。
(2)在否定句中,我們還可以將第一個(gè)as用so來替換:A+not so (或as)+形容詞或副詞的原級(jí)+as+B。
a. He is not so/as clever as you.
b. No other modern nation devotes so small a portion of its wealth to public health as the United States does.?。ㄗ⒁夥穸ㄔ~在句首,故此句為否定句)沒有哪個(gè)國(guó)家像美國(guó)一樣投入這么少的財(cái)富到公共健康事業(yè)上。
(3)當(dāng)我們要表示A是B的幾倍或幾分之幾時(shí),我們用句型:A+幾倍(three times)或幾分之幾(a third)as+形容詞或副詞的原級(jí)+as+B。
a. This book is twice as thick as that one.
b. The earth has a mass nearly one hundred times as much as that of the moon.
(4)我們還可用the same...as句型來表示原級(jí)比較。這時(shí)句子結(jié)構(gòu)為:A+the same+名詞+as+B。注意在這個(gè)句型中,the same后面只能接名詞,而非形容詞。
I am as old as you.
不能說:I am the same old as you.*
而要用與形容詞old相對(duì)應(yīng)的名詞age。所以這句話應(yīng)改為:
I am the same age as you.
下面列出的是各種性質(zhì)的形容詞與其對(duì)應(yīng)的名詞。