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标题: OG11, review 72题,请教 [打印本页]

作者: dreamdream8    时间: 2007-8-8 16:20
标题: OG11, review 72题,请教

72. The gyrfalconan Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinctionits numbers are now five-times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970’s

(A)  extinctionits numbers are now five times greater than

(B)  extinctionits numbers are now five times more than

(C)  extinctiontheir numbers now fivefold what they were

(D)  extinctionnow with fivefold the numbers they had

(E)  extinctionnow with numbers five times greater than

正确:A, 我选了B

OG解释B:The use of more instead of greater inappropriately implies there are now more numbersrather than more gyrfalcons

不明白啊,more than 就是指numbers,greater than 指gyrfalcons?

还有,有那位高手指点一下,number, numbers的用法,区别?


作者: yukee820    时间: 2007-8-8 16:41

In B, the construction its numbers are... more is not idiomatic: there are more birds, but not more numbers.
        

解释得很清楚啊






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