prep72--请教 as many。。as的用法

crowkiller

首先，比较的对象是什么？看懂意思的话，很显然，是在比较两个“比率”（RATIO）.

 由C的比较结构看，就是在比较这个比率，即there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were (microcomputers for pupils) four years ago.

如果按照你理解的，4年前比现在拥有的计算机更多：现在是32个人一个，4年前8个人一个。这个合理么？

david_sz

同意你的说法，应该是1 computers for every 128 pupils

我想问问如果补全的话，应该怎么写呢？

there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were (microcomputers for pupils) four years ago.

crowkiller

其实这里的单复数我觉得不是主要的。

用   four times as many as there was the ratio (或者one microcomputer for every 128 pupils）four years ago.

或者 four times as many as there were microcomputers for pupils
                four years ago. 都可以

Open to discuss........

david_sz

thank you really very much

lichabrend

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pwss

twstdngl

A - compared to is unnecesary. Coz u
know, "compared to" is another idiom for comparison which is useless
since there is an idiom as.... as to compare already.

            

            B - Correct.. correctly uses as ... as idiom and
compares "households" precisely.

            

            C - Households are compared to "children and
grandchildren"

            

            D,E - than is a wrong idiom for as... than

    

you are not incorrect, by the way, about
omitting "there are"; you would indeed get a grammatically correct
sentence that way.

the problem, though, is that the resulting
sentence would be extremely awkward and difficult to read. 

So, What we learn from this SC question is that:

Both

as many x... as y..  

and

there are as many X…. as there are Y… 

are perfectly correct.