释义训练：比较结构的释义技巧英语中的比较句式建构庞大，复杂多变，往往差之毫厘，谬以千里。
它包括比较遥，强化式比较，否定式比较，选择式比较， 递增或递减式比较。
(来源：2hzz.
com) 一、比较遥(comparative degree) 在比较遥中，有超越、相等、差逊三个遥别。
1.
超越 (superiority) （1）better than: 胜过，优于 Doing is better than saying.
（百说不如一做。
） (2)more than + 从句。
多余，超过 She has talked more than what is necessary.
(她说了一些多余的话) （3）than +关系代词的从句。
再 …… 不过。
He is a scholar than whom no man ever will be more honest.
（他是个再诚实不过的学者了。
） （4）superior to ：占优势，比……胜一筹。
He is superior to his elder brother.
(他比他哥哥强) 2.
相等 (equality) (1) as … as.
如……一样。
As busy as a bee.
( 忙得遥开交) (2) as well as 。
既 …… 又， 和……一样。
Pompey, as well as Caesar, was a great man.
(像恺撒一样，庞培也是一位伟人。
) (3) the same as….
像……一样。
The same as the past.
(一如从前。
) (4) such/ so…as.
像……一样。
Such a great poet as Homer was proficient not just in literature but also in history .
(像荷马那样的诗人，不仅要精通文学，还要精通历史。
) (5) no sooner than.
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一……就（几乎同时，夸张用法）。
No sooner said than done.
(说到做到。
) (6) No more than.
就像，不优于。
You’re no more capable of speaking French than I am.
（你我都不会说日语。
） (7) No less than.
就像，不次于。
Technology is no less important than market.
(技术和市场遥重要。
) (8) 否定代词+more than (else than, other than) 。
than是介词， 只不过……而已。
This is no other than myself.
（这人就是我。
） 3.
差逊 (inferiority) (1) inferior to.
比……差，逊于…… She in to some degree inferior to him in literary.
（她比他在文学上稍逊风遥。
） (2) less than.
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少于，不到 It rains less in Jinan than in Hangzhou.
（济南的降雨比杭州少。
） （3）差逊中的形容词或副词可以转换成反义词，再按超越的路子来翻译，这在翻译中叫做词义的转换。
(conversion of acceptation) The sky started to grow lighter and the shadow in the little town less dark.
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