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发表于 2022-2-16 01:07:09 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
关于greater more high less fewer low
谁和谁是一对
数量的比较什么时候用greater,什么时候用fewer 什么时候用 high 求哪位大神指点一下。
我看的资料是百分比的比较用higher 和lower ,麻烦各位学霸更正

我先举两个例题哈
The gyrfalcon, 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 sharply restricted in the early 1970’s.
(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were
(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
(E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than
Answer:A

Organizers claimed that the rally for public health care drew close to half a million people, but the city officials estimated the amount of people at the rally to be less than 300,000.
A the amount of people at the rally to be less
B the number of people at the rally to be less
C the number of people attending the rally at fewer
D the number of people attending the rally at less
E that the amount of people at the rally was fewer
正确答案:B


发表于 2022-2-16 12:56:46 | 显示全部楼层
网上解释:

表达“量”概念的名词,可以说“大小,高低”,但一般不说“多少”:
price(价格),population(人口),number(数目),amount(数量),weight(重量), speed(速度), height(高度) depth(深度) length(长度) width(宽度) size(尺寸), age(年龄),temperature(温度)等。

例句:
The number is greater than one.
The population is greater than before.
 楼主| 发表于 2022-2-16 18:43:07 | 显示全部楼层
长丝弓 发表于 2022-2-16 12:56
网上解释:

表达“量”概念的名词,可以说“大小,高低”,但一般不说“多少”:

亲你好,population好像不能用greater来修饰吧。
 楼主| 发表于 2022-2-16 18:43:48 | 显示全部楼层
顶一下自己
发表于 2022-6-17 00:31:09 | 显示全部楼层
啊 深夜搜索greater and more找到这张帖子
https://magoosh.com/gmat/gmat-comparisons-more-vs-greater-and-less-vs-fewer/
hope it helps

BTW 第二题,虽然我还没有看amount 和 number的区别 但是感觉人说amount好奇怪啊
发表于 2022-6-17 00:32:39 | 显示全部楼层
好滴 我搜完amount 和number回来了 amount修饰不可数名词 number修饰可数名词。
没想到 13年我要跟GMAT作斗争 十年过去了换成跟GRE作斗争
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