five times greater/more than or as great as?

bettywushh

PREP新题： Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitatsw, researchers have determined that there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times as rare as
                        China’s giant pandas.
                            

A. Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitatsw, researchers have determined that there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times as rare as

B. Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitatsw, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, researchers have determined, making them many times more rare than

C. There are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined, which makes the leopards many times more rare compared to

D. Researchers have determined that, because of being poached and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, thus making them many more times as rare as

E. Researchers have determined that, because of poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times more rare than

    ANS:E

我现在对E项中many times more rare than感到困惑了.many times as rare as对吗?

91. 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

 

A: correct,

注意：
            

1、倍数一般用greater than而不是more than，因为会有歧义，虽然SC大全和GWD也有X times more than正确的时候，有Greater还是应该选Greater than

个人认为注释说不是很对,用greater的原因是因为比较对象为 number, number只能是大,或者小.

如果要表示是五倍大,也就是大四倍,是否为five times as great as? five times as great as错了吗?

如果要是比什么大五倍,是否为five times greater than?或者是five times more than?

另外,12 years more than 只正确表达方式,12 years as many as是错误的表达方式,对吗?

bloveecho

没看题因为还没有做到prep

说说前一阵看一位NN总结的倍数表示法

1 .....times as + adj/adv + as....译为:是...的几倍

2 more than + 倍数词 + as + adj/adv + as.....译为:比....的几倍还多

3 ....times + ..er than ..... 译为:比...大几倍

4 times the /所有格 + n ...译为: 是....的几倍

具体数字后面一般都加more than 结构强调比....多多少,如果是as many as表示和其一样多,根本显示不出来比较的意义

bettywushh

65. A decade after initiating the nation's most comprehensive and aggressive antismoking program, per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as in the nation as a whole.

A) per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as

B) annual per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs to about 60, more than twice as great as that

C) California's annual per capita consumption of cigarettes declined from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as the drop

D) California has seen per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs annually to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as that

E) California has seen annual per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as that

这里又出现了more than twice as great as

bloveecho

不明白ＭＭ什么意思？这是正确用法啊，出现不奇怪