doubling the increase of the previous year。 想了半天只能理解成这样,这里的increase 作为名词指代 the number of people flying first class on domestic flights rise 这件事情的。因此对比今年的这件事比去年的这件事更迅速。 请NN指教。
其次,无论是double,还是twice 修饰的宾语是the increase, 这尼玛还分情况了,如果你看把increase只当做增加来看,增量是不可数名词, many换成much,如果你把increase深层次理解,当做是the number of people的增加,那么increase就是个代词了,代替的内容就是the number of people,在比较数字,用great来比较,the number is greater than ...,而不是the number is 3 times as many/much as that number了。
而且double/twice as many/much as 都得紧跟被修饰对象,即 the increase doubles...如果不紧紧跟着的话,不能用此结构~~