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作者: cz    时间: 2003-12-29 14:39
标题: OG72
#72) The number of undergraduate degrees in engineering awarded by colleges and universities in the United Sates increased by more than twice from 1978 to 1985.

A) increased by more than twice
B) increased more than two times
C) more than doubled

The answer is choice C. Can anyone explain what wrong with choice A or B is?

Thanks ^o^
作者: Snazzy    时间: 2003-12-29 15:01
1, 2 times = double
2, 3 times = triple
3, 4 times = quadruple
作者: cz    时间: 2003-12-30 03:17
以下是引用Snazzy在2003-12-29 15:01:00的发言：
1, 2 times = double
2, 3 times = triple
3, 4 times = quadruple


I know that "2 times = double", "3 times = triple" and so on. My question is that I don't know the problem with choice A and B。Why they are wrong?

Thanks!
作者: 深海的小美人鱼    时间: 2003-12-30 04:01
你可以说increase by 100%或者具体的数目，但是不能说increase by twice 或者two times.
作者: hyte    时间: 2006-2-19 19:51

increase by+名詞(因為by是介詞) two times有歧異～可能是double的意思～也可能是兩次的意思

作者: xiangqinzh    时间: 2006-10-21 10:01

下面是美国专业出版物上用法:  A.  
      Increased by 后面接具体数字

                                          B.  
      Increased More Than 12 Percent 

                                          C.more than doubled     正确

                                           D.被动不好

                                           E.完成时不对

                                          

                                                                         

GOOGLE搜索：
    

1．Since June, that average has more than doubled, to 5.4 million sites per month.

2．but India's largest bourse might end up more than doubling the size of its planned public issue

3．Foreign Direct Investment to India has increased more than 250% from last year ?

4．Federal Academic Science and Engineering Obligations Increased More Than 12 Percent Between FY 1998 and FY 1999 (March 20, 2001).

 

 

5．Since December, health care employment has increased by 231000.

 

6．Consumer Price Index Increased by 1.8% In April.
        

7．The internet search giant Google Inc. said Thursday its 2006 second-quarter profit more than doubled, with its earnings reaching 721.1 million dollars, or 2.33 dollars per share.

8．Traffic to del.icio.us has more than doubled since Yahoo! acquired it in December 2005.

9.The grasslands of Botswana contain more than twice as many cattle as people

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 A Labor Department study states that the number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent


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