请问764: it numbers

redemption

764. 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

答案是A
[疑问]为什么用numbers? 感觉 gyrfalcon的数量应该用number, 而numbers是指多个数量，比如： 30, 40,50 可以说 The numbers are all below one hundred. 请大家解释解释OG为什么用复数？

gemj

这个题目也经有N个人问过了，类似于
large quantities of
the minute amounts of
large amounts of money
等等。
但为什么是复数我始终不清楚，可不可以理解是一种习惯？
从逻辑上说用复数怎么也不能让人接受。

redemption

在词组中确实有large numbers of的用法，但是单个的number 和 numbers含义显然不同。另外，我搜索了题号764没有找到相关的帖子。有没有讨论出明确结果的帖子？

gemj

在我的印象中好象没有。
947的题号刚刚启用，你用这个编号肯定是找不到的。还是用以前的编号找吧。

希望携手

A跟B怎么比呀？