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1、全面解析than的用法一、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，则其后的助词需补出，时态要据后定。主语相同可省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 th
2、e labor force in the 1980s than did in the 1960s and 1970s, 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 likel
3、y than those who are sedentary to die of a heart attack.(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，则其后的主语无须补助词。1. Even though Bela Bartoks music has proved less popular than Igor Stravinskys and less influential than Arnold Schonbergs, it is no less important.2. In 1982 the median income for m
4、arried-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 medic
5、ation and gain weight more quickly than those raised in confinement.(2) than后名词前的介词要补出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 a
6、ncient at 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some tortoises at 150. 介宾的比较。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 architect
7、ure more apparent than in its government buildings.(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/those1. In addition to having more protein than wheat does, rice has protein of higher quality
8、 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 t
9、o Homers 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 in
10、to a world dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and more polished people than he.4. Bihar is Indias 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 su
11、ch high-paying fields as electronics and banking, making the states economy far more diversified than it was ten years ago. (需要解释)(5) likely引导的表语比较1. St. Johns , Newfoundland, lies on the same latitude as Paris, France, but in spring St. Johns residents are less likely to be sitting at outdoor cafes
12、 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
13、：1. Although Napoleons 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 in
14、struments.(7) 句子的比较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
15、 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. Hakutas research among Hispanic children in the United Stat
16、es 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/ estimated1. The report on the gross national productthe nations total production of goods and servicesshowed that s
