英語語法 | “倍數”的英語表達
本文章由春喜在線英語于2017.12.05日編輯發布
It cost three times as much as I had expected. 它花的錢比我預期的多兩倍。 Cats sleep twice as much as people. 貓睡覺的時間比人長一倍。 Unemployment among blacks was twice as high as that for white. 黑人的失業人數是白人的兩倍。 New drivers have twice as many accidents as experienced drivers. 新駕駛人所出的事故是老駕駛人的兩倍。 當我們在描述物品的規格大小的時候，經常會用到倍數的表達，但是在英語中，用起來可就不是兩個字這么簡單了，今天小編分享兩個“倍數”的英語表達，一起來看看吧！
數字 + times + the size / length / depth / height / width / quantity / amount / etc+ of +比較對象 Their house is twice the size of ours. 他們的房子是我們的兩倍大。 The queen bee is twice the length of a worker bee. 蜂王的體長為工蜂的兩倍。 Many are holding out for ten times the price. 許多人堅持索要10倍于該價格的價錢。 This room is twice the length of the other, but much narrower. 這個房間的長度是那個房間的兩倍，但窄得多。 Concorde crosses the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound. 協和飛機以兩倍于聲速的速度飛越大西洋。 The soil contains 30 times the acceptable level of radioactivity. 這片土壤受到了高于標準30 倍的輻射。 Air pollution in the city had reached five times the acceptable levels. 這座城市的空氣污染程度曾高達可接受標準的四倍。