LSAT-12-1-12 12. in the centerville botanical gardens, all tulip trees are older than any maples. a majority, but not all, of the garden's sycamores are older than any of its maples. all the garden's maples are older than any of its dogwoods. if the statements above are true, which one of the following must also be true of trees in the centerville botanical gardens? (a) some dogwoods are as old as the youngest tulip trees. (b) some dogwoods are as old as the youngest sycamores. (c) some sycamores are not as old as the oldest dogwoods. (d) some tulip trees are not as old as the oldest sycamores. (e) some sycamores are not as old as the youngest tulip trees.
比如C中： 尽管英文表达是： not as old as 中文翻译可能是：比较可大可小； 但如果是英文的话：not as odl as == younger than for example: The game is not as bad as what you think. That is : The game is better than what you think.
我们看一下以下几个例子（LSAT）： A company’s personnel director surveyed employees about their satisfaction with the company’s system for awarding employee performance ratings. The survey data indicated that employees who received high ratings were very satisfied with the system. The personnel director concluded from these data that the company’s best-performing employees liked the system. The personnel director’s conclusion assumes which of the following? (A) No other performance rating system is as good as the current system. (B) The company’s best-performing employees received high ratings. (C) Employees who received low ratings were dissatisfied with the system. (D) Employees who receive high ratings from a performance-rating system will like that system. (E) The company’s best-performing employees were motivated to perform well by the knowledge that they would receive performance ratings.
In any field, experience is required for a proficient person to become an expert. Through experience, a proficient person gradually develops a repertory of model situations that allows an immediate, intuitive response to each new situation. This is the hallmark of expertise, and or this reason computerized “expert systems” cannot be as good as human exerts. Although computers have the ability to store millions of bits of information, the knowledge of human experts, who benefit from the experience of thousands of situations, is not stored within their brains in the form of rules and facts. The argument requires the assumption of which one of the following? (A) Computers can show no more originality in responding to a situation than that built into them by their designers. (B) The knowledge of human experts cannot be adequately rendered into the type of information that a computer can store. (C) Human experts rely on information that can be expressed by rules and facts when they respond to new situations. (D) Future advances in computer technology will not render computers capable of sorting through greater amounts of information. (E) Human experts rely heavily on intuition while they are developing a repertory of model situations.
同意八戒的解释。具体的用法还不很清楚。但查了一下张道真的语法书，其中举了个例子。You're not half as clever as you think you are.给出的翻译为你并不如你想象的一半聪明。还有例子：I don't swim as often as I used to.我游泳的时候不像过去那样多了。 由此可鉴 not as good as ===worse than的解释是正确的。 八戒兄高手！
但是就这个not as adj as 单句而言，一定是可以两方面理解的。问题就在于，在上面这个题目中，可否把some sycamores are not as old as the oldest dogwoods. 理解为： younger than. 我还是没看出上下文中有说明只能理解成younger than, 而不能理解成older than.
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