Smoking is so harmful to personal health that it kills seven times more people each year than automobile accidents.
“Do you regret paying five hundred dollars for the painting?” “No, I would gladly have paid twice as much for it.”
(4)下列词和短语不用比较级形式却表示比较概念:
inferior,minor,senior,prior,prefer to,superior,major,junior,preferable,differ from,compared with,in comparison with,different from,rather than。如:
Their watch is superior to all the www.lindalemus.com other watches on the market.
4.最高级形式应注意的问题
(1)最高级比较范围用介词in, over, of, among。
in, (all)over用于在某一范围内的比较医学全在,线www.lindalemus.com,如:in China, all over the world; of, among 用于在同一群体内同类事物的比较,如:among the teachers, of the four dresses。
注意:among…相当于one of…,不说among all…。这一点考生应与汉语表达区别开来。如:
Of all visible lights, red light has the longest and violet the shortest wavelength.
(2)比较级形式表示最高级意义时,比较对象的范围应用:
any other +单数名词
the other +复数名词
the others
anyone/anything else
上述词是用来将比较级结构转变成最高级意义的关键词语,切不可遗漏,否则会造成逻辑混乱的错误。如不能说:John runs faster than anyone.注意与汉语表达的不同。
5.有关比较级的特殊句型