OG-125 greater than和more than的区别

ReneeLChen

Thegyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction;its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharplyrestricted in the early 1970's. .

a)       extinction; its numbers are now five times greaterthan

b)       extinction;its numbers are now five times[url=]more than[/url]

c)        extinction,[url=]their[/url]  numbers now fivefold what they were  

d)       extinction,now with fivefold the numbers [url=]they had[/url]  

此题答案为A，想问B选项more than和its numbers 搭配为什么不对？

另外，twice as many as在GMAT里是不是算作redundant？还是说在有些情况下也是可以用的？

谢谢回复！

angeliasilvia

给亲看一道OG2016版的新题：
A long-term study of some 1000 ogysicians indicates that the more coffee these doctors drank, the more they had a likelihood of coronary disease.A  more they had a likelihood of coronary disease
B more was their likelihood of having coronary disease
C more they would have a likelihood to have coronary disease
D greater was their likelihood of having coronary disease
E greater was coronary disease likely.
这道题选D，ABC都错在用了More,more代表的是quantity,而greater代表的是一个degree,也就是程度

andrew22要奋斗

那bigger和greater是类似的了？

谁是谁的小宝贝

感谢分享！               

lisa001

认真体会下句意，你会发现是强调数字本身的大小，用greater适合。

Jointfly

angeliasilvia 发表于 2015-9-15 22:19
给亲看一道OG2016版的新题：
A long-term study of some 1000 ogysicians indicates that the more coffee  ...

同意！               

angeliasilvia

there are more birds, not more numbers，我们说数目大，不说数目多

zszszssz

举两个例子 集合A{ 1,2,3,4,5},集合B{ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
那么 集合B的numbers are MORE than those of A ，因为A有5个数字， B有8个数字，B的数字“个数”比A 多
如果A=5，B=8 ，那么 B is greater than A ，因为 B的“数值” 比A 大。
那么大概意思就体现出来了。
greater 和 more 的不同在于，当你相比较“数值”的大小时，你用greater，当你想比较“个数”或者“数量”的多少时，你用more。当然这并不全面，毕竟more可以修饰不可数，但是意思是一致的。同时还有例如likelihood 等词汇也是使用 great。这些词汇你要自己总结，去搜索，不过常见的就是数值与数量的区别。