翻译作英文惯用语翻译AS

Week 4 英文惯用表达翻译
1.as…as…
He is as kind as his sister.
He is as kind as honest.
She is not so pretty as her sister.
She is more attractive than pretty.
2.as…as any/ as…as ever
He is as great a statesman as any.
His trust in his friend was as firm as ever.
The dog was courageous an animal as ever scoured the woods.
3.as…as…can be
It is as plain as plain can be.
I am as thirsty as thirsty maybe.
Y ou are as wrong as wrong can be.
4.as…, so…
As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart.
As fire tries gold, so does adversity try courage.
5.as much/ as many
he has gold as much as silver.
Found ten misprints in as many pages.
He was greatly respected, and his brother as much despised.
I was not in the least surprised, for I had expected as much.
6. as good as/ as well as
The sailors did noble duty that day, in the dogged faith that they would “give as good as they got , any how.”
The merchant as good as promised the orphan boy, that he would adopt him.
This is the case with manufacturing as well as with agricultural interests.。