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。
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 的用法先解释清楚医.学全在线提供www.lindalemus.com,希望对大家有所帮助:
(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).
eg:There are no more than fifteen eggs in the basket.
篮子里只有15个鸡蛋。(暗指15个鸡蛋太少)
eg:There are not more than fifteen eggs in the basket.
篮子里至多有15个鸡蛋。(暗指可能少于15个)
(2)用语两者的比较时:“no+形容词或副词比较级+than”是对两者的否定医学全在线www.lindalemus.com,相当于neither...nor...
eg:This story is no more interesting than that one.(=Neither this story nor that one is interesting.)
这个故事和那个故事一样没趣。
“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...
eg:This story is not more interesting than that one.(=This story is not so interesting as that one.)