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A new telescope, over twice the size, was recently built at Sugar Grove in West Virginia. (New Concept English, Book 3, L. 55)
[原译1]最近在西弗吉尼亚州的休格葛罗夫新建造的一台望远镜，比它大两倍多。（中译本）
[原译2]最近一个比它大两倍的新的射电望远镜在西弗吉尼亚州的休格格罗夫建成。（外研社版，p.110）
请问 twice the size 是指“比……大两倍”，还是指“是……的两倍”？
是指“是……的两倍”或“比……大一倍”，见 as much as, large, n times more than。
This airplane flies two times faster than that one.
这架飞机的飞行速度比那一架快一倍。(《翻译通讯》1982年第5期)上面的英文句子是否正确?
按照英语惯用法,当 n times more ... than 中的 n=2 时,一般采用 twice as many ... as 或 twice as much ... as 的格式,而不采用 two times more ... than 或 twice more ... than 的格式。例如:
The data in Table 2, taken with exactly the same arrangement as before but with the force doubled, shows that the velocity increases twice as fast as before. Instead of we obtain .用与前次实验完全相同的装置但用二倍的力，我们得出了表2中的数据，它们表明速度的增快是前次的二倍。我们得到 厘米/秒²，而不是 厘米/秒²。
They want at least to double their salaries. (= 'twice as much as they now earn') 他们要求把他们的工资增加一倍。
The boy students in this school are nearly ____ as the girl students to say they intend to get a college degree in business.
twice as many (much) ... as
After the new technique was introduced, the factory produced ____ tractors in 1988 as the year before. A. as twice many B. as many twice C. twice as many D. twice many as(全国高考,90-31) 这道题使我感到眼花缭乱。请分析。
如果你记住了 n times as many(much) ... as 这个格式,上面的题是很容易做的。按照英语惯用法,当 n=2 时,一般采用 twice,而不采用 two times。例如:
They want at least to double their salaries. (= 'twice as much as they now earn') 他们要求把他们的工资增加一倍。
[试题句意]本厂在采用了新的技术之后，1988年生产的拖拉机是上一年的两倍。
This ship measures ____ that one. A. as twice as long B. as twice long as C. twice long as D. twice as long as(全国高考,92)
With the help of the German experts, the factory produced ____ cars in 1993 as the year before. A. as twice many B. as many as twice C. as twice as many D. twice as many(上海高考,94-23)
She looks very young, but she is twice as older as my twenty-year-old sister. (上海会考,95-27) (参见 n times more than, as much as)