numbers 是比多少，还是比大小。

victorbj262

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，我觉得应是B吧，numbers是比多少的，怎么比大小呢？number 可以说大小。

crazyxxx

一个一个可以数过来的东西,用more比较好,这里如果用more,那就是说numbers的个量比以前要多,而不是数本身的大小

victorbj262

没明白，那这里到底是用more, 还是greater呢?

crazyxxx

number:

8 plural a :  figures representing amounts of money usually in dollars spent, earned, or involved b (1) : statistics  2; especially : individual statistics (as of an athlete) (2) : rating 3c

这里的number表示的是一个统计学的量,不是一个个可数的概念,所以我觉得应该用greater