第95期:吸烟
Smoking is so harmful to personal health that it kills seven times more people each year than automobile accidents.
译文:
吸烟有害身体健康,每年死于吸烟的人数是死于车祸的人数的七倍。
点睛:
该句的主语是动名词smoking。句中包含so... that...结构,表示“太…以致”的含义。that引导的从句中,主语it指代smoking。从句中还包含表示倍数的结构:A...N times more...than B,表示“A...是B的N倍”。
考点归纳:
以下与times相关的结构都可以表示“A...(大小、长度、数最…)是B的N倍”:
*A is N times as...(great, long, much.) as B
This box is four times as great as that one.
这个箱子的体积是那个箱子的四倍。
*A is N times... (greater,longer,more.…) than B
This box is four times greater than that one.
这个箱子的体积是那个箱子的四倍。
*A is N times the...(size.length,amount...) of B
This box is four times the size of that one.
这个箱子的体积是那个箱子的四倍。