标题: manhattan 中关于倍数词 XXX times 后面是否可以加比较级的疑惑 [打印本页] 作者: jiaying52 时间: 2011-6-11 18:59 标题: manhattan 中关于倍数词 XXX times 后面是否可以加比较级的疑惑 在mahattan 第十三章 numbers in Comparison中 有下面一段话
If you want to relate the quantities by multiplication, use times and as... as... together. Right: The man is FIVE TIMES AS OLD AS his grandson. Wrong: The man is FIVE TIMES OLDER THAN his grandson. The first sentence means that the man's age = 5 x his grandson's age. In the second example, the author is technically saying that the man is six times as old as his grandson. This meaning is unlikely; the author probably meant "five times as old." In one GMAT problem (#72 in the Verbal Supplement), the correct answer says that cer- tain numbers are "5 times greater than ... " other numbers. In general, however, this usage In general, however, this usage should be avoided
我想请问的是 到底 倍数词 twice ,three times 后面可不可以加比较级啊。 好像在语法笔记和网上都能搜出后面加比较级的句子。 求验证，求指导！！！作者: jiaying52 时间: 2011-6-11 19:44
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