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一、more/ less/ adj+erthan
注：此分析未包括as/like
（一） 主语比较
1.1than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 executivesincreased in 1990 by a larger percentage than did the wages ofother salaried workers.
（2）. As a result of the continuingdecline in the birth rate, fewer people will enter the labor forcein the 1980’s than did in the 1960’s and 1970’s, a twenty-yearperiod during which people born after the war swelled the ranks ofworkers. (主语people相同且无定语成分则省之，但did不能省)
（3）. Several studies have foundthat the coronary patients who exercise most actively are at leastfifty percent less likely than those who are sedentary to die of aheart 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 Bartok’smusic has proved less popular than Igor Stravinsky’s and lessinfluential than Arnold Schonberg’s, it is no lessimportant.
(2). In 1982 the median income formarried-couple families with a wage-earning wife was $9,000 morethan that for families in which only the husband wasemployed.
1.3than前有两个动词，比较主语无须补助词。
(1). A study commissioned by theDepartment of Agriculture showed that if calves exercise andassociate with other calves, they have require less medication andgain weight more quickly than those raised inconfinement.
（二） than后名词前的介词要补出
（1）. Aging is a property of allanimals that reach a fixed size at maturity, and the variations inlife spans among different species are far greater than those amongindividuals of the same species: a fruit fly is ancient at 40 days,a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some tortoisesat 150. 介宾的比较。
（2）. The investor who is uncertainabout the future is more likely to put money into blue-chip stocksor treasury bills than into gold.
（3）. Nowhere in Prakta is theinfluence of modern European architecture more apparent than in itsgovernment buildings.（倒装句）
（4）. The human growth hormone,made by the pituitary gland, is secreted in higher concentrationsduring sleep than during waking hours.
（三） 宾语比较，一般加that/those
（1）. In addition to having moreprotein than wheat does, rice has protein of higher quality thanthat in wheat, with more of the amino acids essential to the humandiet. (B-p106-19)
（四）宾语补语，比较结构修饰宾语，无须补出助词；
（1）. In his eagerness to find acity worthy of Priam, the German archaeologist Schliemann cutthrough Troy and uncovered a civilization a thousand years moreancient than the city known to Homer’s heroes.
（2）. .Domestic automobilemanufacturers have invested millions of dollars in research todevelop cars even more gasoline-efficient than those at present onthe road.
（3）. The man was always aware,sometimes proudly and sometimes resentfully, that he was asmall-town Midwesterner thrust into a world dominated by wealthier,better-educated, and more polished people than he.
（4）. Bihar is India’s state, withan annual percapita income of $111 lower than that of the mostimpoverished countries of the world.
（5）. Florida will gain anotherquarter-million jobs this year alone, many of them in suchhigh-paying fields as electronics and banking, making the state’seconomy far more diversified than it was ten years ago.（需要解释）
（五） likely引导的表语比较
（1). St. John’s , Newfoundland,lies on the same latitude as Paris, France, but in spring St.John’s residents are less likely to be sitting at outdoor cafesthan to be bracing themselves against arctic chills, shovelingsnow, 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 giveregular finacial aid to their children than to receive it fromthem.
（六） 宾语+介词混合结构：
（1）. Although Napoleon’s armyentered Russia with far more supplies than for any previouscampaign, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.
（2). Once positioned in space, theHubble Space Telescope will capture light from source twenty timesfainter than those that can be detected by ground-basedinstruments.
（七） 句子的比较
（1). In Japan elderly people aretreated with far greater respect than they are in most Westerncountries.
(2). For many travelers, chartervacations often turn out to cost considerably more than theyoriginally seemed.
(3). Holland spends a largerpercentage of its gross national product on defending its coastsfrom rising seas than the United States does on militarydefense.句子比较
(4). Two new studies indicate thatmany people become obese more because their bodies burn caloriestoo slowly than because they eat too much.
(5). Dr. Hakuta’s research amongHispanic children in the United States indicates that the more thechildren use both Spanish and English, the greater theirintellectual advantage in skills underlying reading ability andnonverbal logic. (B-p106-7)
（八） than ever, than anticipated/estimated…
（1）. The report on the grossnational product—the nation’s total production of goods andservices—showed that second-quarter inflation was somewhat lowerthan previously estimated and that the savings rate was slightlyhigher.
（2）. The financial crash ofOctober 1987 demonstrated that the world’s capital markets are moreclosely integrated than ever before and that events in one part ofthe global village may be transmitted to the rest of thevillage—almost instantaneously.
（九） more than, less than及其他。
9.1 视同副词
（1）. Founded in 1983, the magazinehas since more than doubled its circulation and itsadvertising.
（2）. The number of undergraduatedegrees in engineering awarded by colleges and universities in theUnited States more than doubled from 1978 to 1985.
（3）. Degler does more than merelysummarize existing research; he constructs a coherent picture oftwo centuries of studies dealing with the changing roles ofwomen.
（4）. A Labor Department studystates that the number of women employed outside the home increasedby more than thirty-five percent in the past decade and accountedfor more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilianwork force.
（5）. Less detrimental than theeffects of bacterial transformation are the effects of bacterialdeterioration: spoilage of food, corrosion of metals, decay ofwood, and other undesirable alternations of substances.
（6）. No less remarkable than thedevelopment of the compact disc has been the use of the newtechnology to revitalize, in better sound than was ever beforepossible, some of the classic recorded performances of the pre-LPera.
（7）. Even though the direct costsof malpractice disputes amounted to less than one percent of the$541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors sayfear of lawsuits plays a major role in health-careinflation.
（8）. With total sales of less thanthree hundred thousand dollars and fewer new subscribers than lastyear, the New England Theatre Company is in danger of losing itsbuilding.
9.2 视同形容词
（9）. No less an authority thanWalter Cronkite has reported that half of all Americans never reada book.
（10). IRS provision 354-B requiresthat an S corporation with assets of greater than $200,000 send W-2forms to its full-and part-time employees on or beforeJan.31.
（十） 插入语
（1）. The visiting pharmacologistsconcluded that the present amalgam of Chinese and Western medicineis probably as good as, or better than, any other system that mightbe devised for the patients treated at the Nan Kai hospital inTian-jing.
（2）. The use of chemicalpesticides in this country is as extensive as it was ten years ago,if not more so.
二、非比较，但与比较相关：
（1）. According to surveys by theNational Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adultsused cocaine in 1979, twice the number reported in the 1977 survey.同位语
（2）. Of the twin supernovas, themore recently discovered it the larger, but it is the smaller onethat has irrevocably altered astronomists’ ideas about the originsof the universe.
