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全面解析
than
得用法
一、
more/ less/ adj+er
than
注：此分析未包括
as/like
(1)
主语比较
1
、
1 than
前若有宾语，则其后得助词需补出，时态要据后定。主语相同可
省
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1
、
The
pay of senior executives increased in 1990 by a
larger percentage than
did the wages of
other salaried workers
、
2
、
As
a result of the continuing decline in the birth
rate, fewer people will
enter the labor
force in the 1980
’
s than did
in the 1960
’
s and
1970
’
s, a twenty-year
period during which people born after
the war swelled the ranks of
workers
、
(
主语
people
相同且无定语成分则省之，但
did
不能省
)
3
、
Several studies have found that the
coronary patients who exercise most
actively are at least fifty percent
less likely than those who are sedentary to die of
a
heart attack
、
(<
/p>
主语相同且有定语成分，必须要
that/those
来指代
)
1
、
2
than
前只有
BE +
ADJ
，则其后得主语无须补助词。
1
、
Even though Bela
Bartok
’
s music has proved
less popular than Igor
Stravinsky
’
s and
less influential than Arnold
Schonberg
’
s, it is no less
important
、
2
、
In 1982 the median income for married-
couple families with a wage-earning
wife was $$9,000 more than that for
families in which only the husband was
employed
、
1
、
3
than
前有两个动词，比较主语无须补助词。
1
、
A
study commissioned by the Department of
Agriculture showed that if
calves
exercise and associate with other calves, they
have require less medication
and gain
weight more quickly than those raised in
confinement
、
(2)
than
后名词前得介词要补出
1
、
Aging is a property of all animals that
reach a fixed size at maturity, and the
variations in life spans among
different species are far greater than those among
individuals of the same species: a
fruit fly is ancient at 40 days, a mouse at 3
years, a
horse at 30, a man at 100, and
some tortoises at 150
、
介宾得比较。
2
、
The investor who is uncertain about the
future is more likely to put money
into
blue-chip stocks or treasury bills than into
gold
、
3
、
Nowhere in Prakta is the influence of
modern European architecture more
apparent than in its government buildin
gs
、
(
倒装句
)
4
、
The
human growth hormone, made by the pituitary gland,
is secreted in
higher concentrations
during sleep than during waking
hours
、
(3)
宾语比较，一般加
that/those
1
、
In addition to having more protein than
wheat does, rice has protein of
higher
quality than that in wheat, with more of the amino
acids essential to the
human
diet
、
(B-p106-19)
(4)
宾语补语，比较结构修饰宾语，无须补出助词
;
1
、
In
his eagerness to find a city worthy of Priam, the
German archaeologist
Schliemann cut
through Troy and uncovered a civilization a
thousand years more
ancient than the
city known to Homer
’
s
heroes
、
2
、
、
Domestic automobile
manufacturers have invested millions of dollars in
research to develop cars even more
gasoline-efficient than those at present on the
road
、
3
、
The man was always aware, sometimes
proudly and sometimes resentfully,
that
he was a small-town Midwesterner thrust into a
world dominated by wealthier,
better-
educated, and more polished people than
he
、
4
、
Bihar is India
’
s
state, with an annual percapita income of $$111
lower than
that of the most
impoverished countries of the
world
、
5
、
Florida will gain another quarter-
million jobs this year alone, many of them
in such high-paying fields as
electronics and banking, making the
state
’
s economy
far more diversified than it was ten
years ago
、
(
需要解释
)
(5)
likely
引导得表语比较
1
、
St
、
John
’
s ,
Newfoundland, lies on the same latitude as Paris,
France, but
in spring
St
、
John
’
s residents
are less likely to be sitting at outdoor cafes
than to be
bracing themselves against
arctic chills, shoveling snow, or seeking shelter
from a
raging northeast
storm
、
2
、
According to a recent study, the
elderly in the United States are four times
more likely to give regular finacial
aid to their children than to receive it from
them
、
(6)
宾语
+
介词混合结构：
1
、
Although
Napoleon
’
s army entered
Russia with far more supplies than for
any previous campaign, it had
provisions for only twenty-four
days
、
2
、
Once positioned in space, the Hubble
Space Telescope will capture light
from
source twenty times fainter than those that can be
detected by ground-based
instruments
、
(7)
句子得比较
1
、
In Japan elderly people are treated
with far greater respect than they are in
most Western
countries
、
2
、
For many travelers, charter vacations
often turn out to cost considerably
more than they originally
seemed
、
3
、
Holland spends a larger percentage of
its gross national product on
defending
its coasts from rising seas than the United States
does on military
defense
、句子比较
4
、
Two
new studies indicate that many people become obese
more because
their bodies burn calories
too slowly than because they eat too
much
、
5
、
Dr
、
Hakuta
’
s research
among Hispanic children in the United States
indicates that the more the children
use both Spanish and English, the greater their
intellectual advantage in skills
underlying reading ability and nonverbal
logic
、
(B-p106-7)
(8) than ever,
than anticipated/ estimated
…
1
、
The
report on the gross national
product
—
the
nation
’
s total production of
goods and
services
—
showed that second-
quarter inflation was somewhat lower
than previously estimated and that the
savings rate was slightly
higher
、
2
、
The financial crash of October 1987
demonstrated that the
world
’
s capital
markets are more closely integrated
than ever before and that events in one part of
the global village may be transmitted
to the rest of the
village
—
almost
instantaneously
、
(9) more than,
less than
及其她。
9
、
1
视同副词
1
、
Founded in 1983, the magazine has since
more than doubled its circulation
and
its advertising
、
2
、
The number of undergraduate degrees in
engineering awarded by colleges
and
universities in the United States more than
doubled from 1978 to 1985
、
3
、
Degler does more than merely summarize
existing research; he constructs a
coherent picture of two centuries of
studies dealing with the changing roles of
women
、
4
、
A
Labor Department study states that the number of
women employed
outside the home
increased by more than thirty-five percent in the
past decade and
accounted for more than
sixty-two percent of the total growth in the
civilian work
force
、
5
、
Less detrimental than the effects of
bacterial transformation are the effects
of bacterial deterioration: spoilage of
food, corrosion of metals, decay of wood, and
other undesirable alternations of
substances
、
6
、
No less remarkable than the development
of the compact disc has been the
use of
the new technology to revitalize, in better sound
than was ever before
possible, some of
the classic recorded performances of the pre-LP
era
、
7
、
Even though the direct costs of
malpractice disputes amounted to less than
one percent of the $$541 billion the
nation spent on health care last year, doctors say
fear of lawsuits plays a major role in
health-care inflation
、
8
、
With total sales of less than three
hundred thousand dollars and fewer new
subscribers than last year, the New
England Theatre Company is in danger of losing
its building
、
9
、
2
视同形容词
9
、
No less an authority than Walter
Cronkite has reported that half of all
Americans never read a
book
、
10
、
IRS provision 354-B requires that an S
corporation with assets of greater
than
$$200,000 send W-2 forms to its full-and part-time
employees on or before Jan
、
3
1
、
(10)
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