2017考研:英语常考比较级句式(一)
1、"as... as..."的比较级固定句式
[例句] The defining term of intelligence in humans still seems to be the IQ score, even though IQ tests are not given as often as they used to be.
2、"...not so... as..."的比较级固定句式
[例句] For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the 80s, down-shifting in the mid-'90s' is not so much a search for the mythical good life - growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one - as a personal recognition of yourlimitations.
[译文] 对于我们这一代在80年代被敦促搏击生活的女性来说,90年代中期的放慢生活节奏的生活,与其说是对神秘的美好生活的追求——自己种植有机蔬菜以及冒险进人一个神秘生活——倒不如说是对个人局限性的自我认识。
3、"more...than"的比较级固定句式
[例句] What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain’s roughlyone hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented - and human perception far more complicated - than previously imagined.
[例句] In addition, far more Japanese workers expressed dissatisfaction with their jobs than did their counterparts in the 10 other countries surveyed.
[译文] 而且,与其他10个被调查国家的工人相比,更多的日本工人对他们的工作表达不满。
[例句] In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s.
[译文] 在多数国家,目前原油成本在汽油价格中的所占的份额比20世纪70年代要小。
4、"less... than..."的比较级固定句式
[例句] Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price.
[例句] Certainly people do not seem less interested in success and its signs now than formerly.
[译文] 当然,目前人们似乎对成功及其象征物的兴趣并不亚于以前。
[例句] Science, iNPRactice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch the experiments: Sir Isaac Newton supposedly discovered gravity through the fall of an apple.
[译文] 在实践中,科学与其说依靠事先准备的实验,不如说依靠实验观察者有所准备的头脑。人们认为伊萨克•牛顿爵士通过苹果坠落发现了地球引力。
5、"the more…the more...”的比较级固定句式
[例句] As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access - after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are.
[译文] 随着互联网变得越来越商业化,普及上网对商家是有利的——毕竟上网的人越多,潜在的客户就越多。
[例句] The more foreign capital you have helping you build your Third Wave infrastructure, which today is an electronic infrastructure, the better off you're going to be.
[译文] 你拥有用来建设第三次浪潮基础设施,目前即电子基础设施的外国资金越多,你就将越富裕。
6、 "just as... so..."的比较级固定句式
[例句] Tjius just as earlier theories have explained the mobility of the continents, so hotspots may explain their mutability (inconstancy).
[译文] 正如以前的理论解释了大陆的移动,热点理论也可能解释大陆的不稳定性。