最难介词：than的用法

1. More ... than ...（被比较）引导比较状语从句

There is more agreement on the kinds of behavior referred (过去分词做后置定语) to by the term than there is (agreement) on how to interpret or classify them.【92年71体英译汉】

字面解释：有更对的意见在这个次所指的不同表现方面，较少的一致意见对这些表现如何解释或分类。

翻译：对于智力这个词所指的不同表现人们的意见比较一致，而对这些表现如何解释或分类则有不同的看法。

2. More than 不仅仅是

They may teach very well, and more than earn their salaries, but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment..【06年50题英译汉】

他们可能很会教书，而且不仅仅是为了挣薪水，但他们大多数人却很少或没有对需要进行道德判断的人类问题进行独立思考。

Make reflection on=think about 对… 进行考虑

Moral adj. 道德上的，有道德的；道义上的

n. 1.教育意义，寓意

2.道德，品行，道德规范

It takes more than a brief encounter on a bus to distinguish between courteous convention and individual interest.【97阅读第二篇】

区别礼貌的习俗和个人兴趣不能仅凭一次公交车上的短暂相遇。

Brief

adj. 短暂的，短时间的；简洁的，简短的

vt. 向…介绍基本情况，作…的摘要

n．概要，摘要

Encounter

vt.遇到，遭遇；偶然遇到，邂逅

n.突然遇到

Distinguish

vi. & vt. 辨别，区别

vt. 显扬自己，使自己扬名

More recently, as the Web prove to be more than a fashion, companies have started to buy and sell products and services with another.【99阅读第二篇】

近来，网络已经超越时尚的概念，因此公司之间开始互相做起了商品和服务的交易。

But what we forgot---what our economy depends on us forgetting ---is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The tings that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment.【06阅读第四篇】

但是，我们所忘记的---我们的经济依赖于我们所忘记的---是幸福并不仅是没有痛苦的快乐。事实上，带来最大快乐的事情往往潜含着给我们带来损失和失望的最大可能。

3. More than+形容词表示“非常”

The USA remains more than capable of holding Iraq down, while confronting North Korea and Iran—its next main targets.【真题例句】

美国在推翻伊拉克的同时，完全有实力可以与下两个打击目标---朝鲜和伊朗来对抗。

4. More than+数字表示“对于…”

5. Nothing more than 只不过是… … （more than 不仅是<>nothing more than 仅仅是）The individual TV viewer invariably senses that he or she is ____ an anonymous, statistically insignificant part of huge and diverse audience.【2001考研语法】

D. nothing more than

每位电视观众总会觉得，在众多形形色色的观众当中，自己是无足轻重的一份子。

6. No more … than 引导比较状语从句（难点）

No more … than =not … any more than

“正如（than 从句）不能…所以，同样不能…”

Than后面的句子为肯定的，但是要译成否定句。

The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.

There is no reason they should limit how much vitamin you take , ____they can limit how much water you drink.【93年考研语法】

D. any more than

正如他们没有理由限制你每天喝多少水一样，他们也没有理由限制你维生素的摄入量。The heart is _____ intelligent than the stomach, for they are both controlled by the brain. 【94年考研语法】

D. no more

Mr. McW horter’s academic speciality is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom”, for exa mple, to be natural and no more regrettable than the lost of case-endings of Old English.【05阅读第四篇】

比较对象是whom和case-endings.

See … to be …把…看成…

But his primary task is not think about the moral code, which governs his activity, any more than a businessman is expected to dedicate his energies to an exploration of rules of conduct in business.【06年49题英译汉】

7. Than 引导定语从句（难点）：

从句部分结构不能完整

Don’t drink more wine than is good for health.√

Don’t drink more wine than wine is good for health. ×

… … consequently, children are likely to have less supervision at home (35)_____ was common in the traditional family structure.【04考研完型】

35. [A] than [B] that [C] which [D] as

Children are likely to have he supervision at home that _____ was common in the traditional family structure.

There ought to be less anxiety over the risk of getting cancer than _____ in the public mind today. 【95年考研语法】

[A] exists [B] exist [C] existing [D]existed