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标题: 百分比的比较用less than还是fewer than? [打印本页]

作者: rayinwhite    时间: 2017-11-14 01:55
标题: 百分比的比较用less than还是fewer than?
Whendrive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950s, some4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less thanone-quarter that many
A. there are less than one-quarterthat many
B. there are fewer than one-quarter as many
C. there are fewer than one-quarterof that amount
D. the number is less than one-quarter the amount

E. it is less than one-quarter of that amount

[size=13.3333px]这题正确答案是B, 用fewer than,因为后面跟的是as many=4,000 drive-ins

California, whichamounts to a little less than half the population of the state, down fromnearly three-quarters only a decade ago
A. which amounts to a little less than half thepopulation of the state, down from nearly three-quarters only a decade ago
B.which amounts to a little less than half thepopulation of the state, down from a decade ago, when it was nearlythree-quarters
C. and that amounts to a little less than half thepopulation of the state, down from a decade ago, when they were nearly three-quarters
D. amounting to a little less thanhalf the population of the state, down from nearly three-quarters a decade ago
E.amounting to a little less than half the population of the state, down fromwhat it was a decade ago by nearly three-quarters

[size=13.3333px]这题正确答案选d,可是用less than,但后面跟的应该是可数名词(half the population)
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[size=13.3333px]ron说过
[size=13.3333px]if you see "less than [%/fraction] of [THING YOU CAN COUNT]" versus "fewer than [%/fraction] of [THING YOU CAN COUNT]", then "less" is wrong and "fewer" is right.
所以这边是题2的题设有问题吗?求大神解答


作者: ttc0720    时间: 2020-4-10 00:24
人口是个概念,单数名词
作者: joe11    时间: 2020-4-12 08:41
population 不是可数名词




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