摘要：8．In area it is about the same size as the USA ,which has more than thirteen times as many people. 从面积上讲.澳大利亚大体上相当于美国.而美国的人口却是澳大利 亚人口的十三倍还多. 英语的倍数表达法.在课文中出现多次.下面归纳如下: ①A is three times as big(high, long, wide, etc.)as B.例如: Asia is four times as large as Europe. 亚洲是欧洲的四倍大. This box is three times as heavy as that one. 这个箱子是那个箱子的三倍重. ②A is threetimes bigger (higher, longer, wider, etc.)than B. 表示大多少倍. The line AB is twice longer than the line CD. AB线比CD线长两倍. ③A is three times the size (height, length, width, etc)of B. 表示是多少倍. The new building is four times the size of the old one. 这座新楼是那座旧楼的四倍大.(这座新楼比那座旧楼大三倍［高三倍］) ④The size(the height, width, length)of A is three that of B. 表示是多少倍. The size of the new building is four times that of the old one. 这座新楼的大小是那座旧楼的四倍. (由于句首已用了the size ,所以four times后用that来代替.以避免重复.) 以上所讲的四个句型都可以相互转换.

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