问一道og11紫色（verbalreview)那本书里的72题

bobo19790111

还是不明白这里说的A,B的区别，请指点！！！

The gyrfalcoon, 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

FlowerJay

这题俺没见过，如果是俺选，俺选B，因greater修饰的是不可数，比如number，而more than修饰的是numbers，这里是大群的

FlowerJay

俺查了查大全，有这个题，是greater... 筒子们指点一下，是不是俺great用法记错了

bobo19790111

这题选a

解释这么说的，the use of more instead of greater inappropriately implies there are now more numbers, rather than more gyrfalcons.

还是不太明白。。。

bloveecho

number的比较只能论大小不能用多少来衡量

比如说5大于（greater），不能说成5多于(more)3

所以ＯＧ的意思是如果用more只能说成鸟本身的比较，而不是鸟的数量的比较

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bobo19790111

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