number, numbers: 492,530,550,709,712,764,829,908,924,

tulipmontreal

JUAN 上面不是已经解释了吗

dreadpower

   我的笔记中一点摘抄

   numbers of   表示多种多样，强调多种种类

  number 表示数字

   按这个原则，我觉得没什么问题啊。。。

tianwan

谢谢各位的精彩论述。numbers可以用于表示  多种类或多群，这个偶现在明白了。

1，large/high/vast numbers of和a large/high/vast number of是不是意思不一样？有什么区别，可不可以互相代替。不都是许多，大量的意思吗？

2，在《新英汉词典》上有：“numbers(或a large number of) people 很多人”，说明numbers of和a large number of可以互相替换。又晕了。

juan

一早起来就看到大家精彩的解释.很是感动和开心..

不过我同样困惑着上面tianwan提出的a large number of 和high numbers of 能否替换的问题。

不过我又看了一遍所有的题,确实如pumpkin mm说的,每题都可以从别的角度去选出正确答案的.只是总结到这个语法点的时候晕了......

dreadpower

   tianwan兄，我觉得那些字典不是ETS出的，可能未必针对ETS的题目

   我一直认为numbers就是表示种类，number表示数字

   好象从没遇见什么理解上的困难。。。（学而不究的典型，惭愧）

   

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vincent0330

number有数量和数字两个意义....

in number: 总共, 在数字上

KittyNewGT

同样疑惑的一个问题，OG中有这样的用法：虽然选项是可以选出，但是numbers的用法不是特别明白。顶这个帖子，请教大家，对number/numbers是否有新说法？

48. The golden crab of the Gulf of Mexico has not been fished commercially in great numbers, primarily on account of living at great depths-- 2,500 to 3,000 feet down.

(A)  on account of living

(B)  on account of their living

(C)  because it lives

(D)  because of living

(E)  being they live

As used in choices A, B, and D, the phrases on account
   of and because of are unidiomatic; because, which appears in C and E, is preferable here since because can introduce a complete subordinate clause explaining the reason why the golden crab has not been fished extensively.
   B and E also produce agree­ment errors by using the plural pronouns their and they to refer to the singular noun crab. Choice D, like A, fails to provide a noun or pronoun to perform the action of living, but even with its the phrases would be more awkward and less clear than it lives. C, which uses because and it as the singular subject of a clause, is the best choice

251. 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, the best choice, uses a singular pronoun, its, to refer to the singular antecedent The gyrfalcon, and it properly uses the construction its numbers are now ... greater than.
        In B, the construction its numbers are ... more is not idiomatic: there are more birds, but not more numbers. Choices C and D use a plural pronoun, their or they, to refer to a grammatically singular antecedent, The gyrfalcon. Choices D and E wrongly use a phrase introduced by now with to modify The gyrfalcon. In both choices, the phrase confusingly seems to parallel with extinction; a new clause with a present tense verb is needed to state what the gyrfalcon's numbers are now

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