关于英语倍数表达问题someonebought3timesasmanypoundsofbeefaspoundsofcoffee到底谁是谁的三倍?此类asas表达有什么规律可寻吗?比如谁在前谁在后

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关于英语倍数表达问题
someone bought 3 times as many pounds of beef as pounds of coffee
到底谁是谁的三倍?
此类as as表达有什么规律可寻吗?比如谁在前谁在后

Answer 1

牛肉比咖啡多.The farm has more than twice as many cows as it has pigs.:农场有多于猪两倍多的牛的数量（农场牛的数量比猪的两倍还要多）.（很多人会误读为猪比牛多.） 解读方法：可以类比一下A has B twice as many as C这个比较句型也可以写为A has twice as many B as C.所以句子的核心是A has B,即：The farm has cows.详细解读：twice as …as中前一个as是副词,more than twice as修饰many；而as it has pigs中的as自然是个连词,所以后面跟的是一个adverbial clause（状语从句/副词从句）,而as…as句型比较特殊,后面的as要与前面as所修饰的内容相呼应,所以as it has pigs应该与前面as所修饰的对象many相呼应,即as it has pigs也是修饰了many.不管怎么说as it has pigs都不是核心成分.这样翻译过来就是农场有牛,相当于两倍多的猪.故,牛多猪少.