文档介绍：几种带有否定词的比较句型
英语中表示比较的句型相当多,如果句型中插进了一个否定词,其意义和用法就很难掌握,下面介绍几种常见的表达方式:
better than:表示“和……一样;实际等于……”,如:
He is no better than a beggar. 他实际上等于一个乞丐。
The invalid is no better than he was yesterday. 病人的情况和昨天一样。
He has no better a say in the matter than I have. 他和我一样在这件事上没有发言权。
. . any more than或no more. . . than:表示“同……一样不”,如:
I could no more do that than you. I could not do that any more than you. 你不能做这件事,我也不能做。
He is not a poet any more than I am a scholar. 我不是一个学者,他也不是一个诗人。
This story is no more interesting than that one. 这个故事和那个故事一样没有趣味。
He is no more able to read German than I am. 他和我一样都不懂德语。
so much. . . as:表示“与其……不如……”
He is not so much a writer as a reporter. 他与其说是个作家,不如说是个记者。
Your explanation does not so much enlighten us as confuse us.
你的解释没有起到启发作用,反而把我们弄糊涂了。
Oceans don
’t so much divide the world as unite it. 与其说海洋分隔了世界,不如说海洋联结了世界。
I don’t so much dislike him as hate him. 我与其说不喜欢他,不如说我恨他。
like:表示“没有什么能比得上……”
There is nothing like home. 金窝银窝,不如自己的草窝。
There is nothing like walking as a means of keeping fit. 没有比散步来保持健康更好的了。
There is nothing like leather for shoes. 做