英文原級比較法問題

Question

1.The earth is _____the moon.
A.as big as forty-nine times B.forty-nine times bigger than
C.forty-nine times as bigger as D.bigger forty-nine times than 答案是B
2.This reservoir is_____that one.
A.one-third time as big as B.one-third as big as
C.as big as one-third D.one-third times the size of 答案是B
為什麼第一題答案是B第二題答案卻不是A?

Answer 1

1. The earth is forty-nine times bigger than the moon. 四十九倍 → 純整數倍2. This reservoir is one-third as big as that one. 三分之一 → 純分數倍當倍數為純整數倍時，可以使用 times。但當倍數純分數倍，則以分數表達即可，不需使用 times。若包含整數與分數時，則仍須使用到 times，如下例所示：It is about [ two ] and [ one third ] times wider than it is tall.例句來源：http://jkor.com/peter/briefscope.html 回答者：落日騎士。作者：落日騎士。ⓒ2005-引用前請先知會本人，並請加註此段訊息