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在阅读理解里面,我们经常会遇到自己认为熟悉短语,于是便按照字面意思去理解。 FEOr'H<3x
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实际上,在英语里面有很多短语都有其约定俗成的用法和意思,不能按其字面意思去理解,象这样的短语有很多,这里先把大家觉得比较头疼的no more(...)than与not more(...)than 的用法先解释清楚,希望对大家有所帮助: rbC4/ 9G\
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(1)不用于比较,后接数词时,no more than意为“仅仅,只不过,只有”(=only),而not more than意为“至多,不超过”(=at the most). 6snDv4
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eg:There are not more than fifteen eggs in the basket. l7{]jKJue
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(2)用语两者的比较时:“no+形容词或副词比较级+than”是对两者的否定,相当于neither...nor... Z.Otci> J
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eg:This story is no more interesting than that one.(=Neither this story nor that one is interesting.) [H~Yg2O
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这个故事和那个故事一样没趣。 E$u9Jbe
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“not+形容词或副词比较级+than"是普通的比较级结构,表示前者不如后者,相当于not so...as... tEU}?k+:j)
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eg:This story is not more interesting than that one.(=This story is not so interesting as that one.) knX*fp
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