| 词汇 | comparative |
| 释义 | comparative noun[ C ] language specializeduk /kəmˈpær.ə.tɪv/ us /kəmˈper.ə.t̬ɪv/ A2 the form of an adjective or adverb that expresses a difference in amount, number, degree, or quality: （形容词或副词的）比较级 "Fatter" is the comparative of "fat".fatter 是 fat 的比较级。 "More difficult" is the comparative of "difficult".more difficult 是 difficult 的比较级。 'Older' is the comparative, not the superlative, of 'old'. Not all adjectives form the comparative by adding 'er' - some are irregular. For homework we have a list of comparatives and superlatives to learn. Yes, the comparative of 'quick' is 'quicker', but the comparative of the adverb 'quickly' is 'more quickly'. This dictionary shows comparatives and superlatives if they are irregular, like 'better' (the comparative of 'good'). 'Better' is the comparative of 'good'. Linguistics: grammatical terms ablative apposition appositive appositively attributively collocate concord dative declension direct object genitive indirect object nominal plural plurally post-modifier postposition postpositional postpositive syntax GrammarAny and comparatives We use any with comparative adjectives and adverbs: … Comparison: adjectives (bigger, biggest, more interesting) Comparative adjectives compare one person or thing with another and enable us to say whether a person or thing has more or less of a particular quality: … Comparative and superlative adjectives Comparative adjectives compare one person or thing with another and enable us to say whether a person or thing has more or less of a particular quality: … Comparative and superlative adjectives: form To form the comparative, we use the -er suffix with adjectives of one syllable: … Comparative adjectives: using much, a lot, far, etc. We can strengthen or emphasise a comparative adjective using words such as much, a lot, far, even or rather, or by using than ever after the adjective: … Comparative adjectives: using than We use than when we mention the second person or thing in the comparison. If the second person mentioned takes the form of a personal pronoun, we normally use the object form of the pronoun (me, you, him, her, us, them): … Comparative adjectives: -erand -er, more and more To talk about how a person or thing is changing and gaining more of a particular quality, we can use two -er form adjectives connected by and, or we can use more and more before an adjective. We don’t follow such comparisons with than: … Comparative adjectives: the -er, the -er and the more …, the more … If a person or things gains more of a particular quality and this causes a parallel increase of another quality, we can repeat the + a comparative adjective: … Reduced forms after comparatives After than, we often don’t repeat subject pronouns with impersonal subjects, or auxiliary verbs with passive voice verbs: … Less and not as/not so with comparatives We use less with longer adjectives (interesting, beautiful, complicated), but we don’t normally use less with short adjectives of one syllable (big, good, high, small). Instead we use not as … as …, or not so … as … Not as is more common than not so: … Prepositions after superlative adjectives We don’t normally use of before a singular name of a place or group after a superlative adjective: … The with superlative adjectives When a superlative adjective is followed by a noun, we normally use the: … Other determiners with superlative adjectives Before a superlative adjective, we can use a possessive determiner (my, his, their), or the + a number (two, three, first, second), or a possessive determiner + a number: … Emphasising superlative adjectives We can make a superlative adjective stronger with by far, easily or of all: … To-infinitives after superlative adjectives We can use a to-infinitive after a superlative adjective, with a meaning similar to a relative clause with who, which or that: … Comparative adjectives: typical errors A comparative adjective is followed by than, not that or as: … Comparison: adverbs (worse, more easily) Adverbs do not normally change in form, but a few have comparative and superlative forms. These are usually short adverbs and so they normally have comparative and superlative forms with -er and -est. … Adverbs: comparative and superlative forms Adverbs do not normally change in form, but a few have comparative and superlative forms. These are usually short adverbs and so they normally have comparative and superlative forms with -er and -est. … Adverbs with more and most Adverbs with two or more syllables form the comparative and superlative with more and most: … Well and badly The adverb well has the same comparative and superlative forms as the adjective good (better, best). The adverb badly has the comparative and superlative forms worse, worst: … Comparative adverbs: using than When we mention the second person or thing in the comparison, we use than. We do not use that or as. If the second person mentioned takes the form of a personal pronoun, we normally use the object form of the pronoun (me, you, him, her, us, them): … Comparison: clauses (bigger than we had imagined) The second part of a comparison (underlined) is often a clause: … Comparison: comparisons of equality (as tall as his father) … Comparative forms Farther and further are comparative adverbs or adjectives. They are the irregular comparative forms of far. We use them to talk about distance. There is no difference in meaning between them. Further is more common: … Superlative forms Farthest and furthest are superlative adjectives or adverbs. They are the irregular superlative forms of far. We use them to talk about distance. There is no difference in meaning between them. Furthest is more common than farthest: … comparative adjective uk /kəmˈpær.ə.tɪv/ us /kəmˈper.ə.t̬ɪv/ comparativeadjective (EXAMINING DIFFERENCES)C1 comparing different things: 比较的，对比的 She's carrying out a comparative study of health in inner cities and rural areas.她正在对市中心区和乡村地区的健康问题进行比较研究。 comparative comfort/freedom/silence, etc. C2 a situation that is comfortable, free, silent, etc. when compared to another situation or what is normal: 相对的舒适（自由，安静等） I enjoyed the comparative calm of his flat after the busy office.在办公室忙碌一天之后，我喜欢他公寓房里相对的安静。 Comparing and contrasting analogy antithesis apple as againstidiom balance something against something contradistinction contrast contrastive contrastively cross-reference measure mutatis mutandis next nonrelative perspective relative relativity shame stack stack up comparativeadjective (WORD FORM)language specialized relating to the form of an adjective or adverb that expresses a difference in amount, number, degree, or quality: （形容词或副词的）比较级的 The comparative form of "slow" is "slower".slow 的比较级形式是 slower。 Linguistics: grammatical terms ablative apposition appositive appositively attributively collocate concord dative declension direct object genitive indirect object nominal plural plurally post-modifier postposition postpositional postpositive syntax GrammarAny and comparatives We use any with comparative adjectives and adverbs: … Comparison: adjectives (bigger, biggest, more interesting) Comparative adjectives compare one person or thing with another and enable us to say whether a person or thing has more or less of a particular quality: … Comparative and superlative adjectives Comparative adjectives compare one person or thing with another and enable us to say whether a person or thing has more or less of a particular quality: … Comparative and superlative adjectives: form To form the comparative, we use the -er suffix with adjectives of one syllable: … Comparative adjectives: using much, a lot, far, etc. We can strengthen or emphasise a comparative adjective using words such as much, a lot, far, even or rather, or by using than ever after the adjective: … Comparative adjectives: using than We use than when we mention the second person or thing in the comparison. If the second person mentioned takes the form of a personal pronoun, we normally use the object form of the pronoun (me, you, him, her, us, them): … Comparative adjectives: -erand -er, more and more To talk about how a person or thing is changing and gaining more of a particular quality, we can use two -er form adjectives connected by and, or we can use more and more before an adjective. We don’t follow such comparisons with than: … Comparative adjectives: the -er, the -er and the more …, the more … If a person or things gains more of a particular quality and this causes a parallel increase of another quality, we can repeat the + a comparative adjective: … Reduced forms after comparatives After than, we often don’t repeat subject pronouns with impersonal subjects, or auxiliary verbs with passive voice verbs: … Less and not as/not so with comparatives We use less with longer adjectives (interesting, beautiful, complicated), but we don’t normally use less with short adjectives of one syllable (big, good, high, small). Instead we use not as … as …, or not so … as … Not as is more common than not so: … Prepositions after superlative adjectives We don’t normally use of before a singular name of a place or group after a superlative adjective: … The with superlative adjectives When a superlative adjective is followed by a noun, we normally use the: … Other determiners with superlative adjectives Before a superlative adjective, we can use a possessive determiner (my, his, their), or the + a number (two, three, first, second), or a possessive determiner + a number: … Emphasising superlative adjectives We can make a superlative adjective stronger with by far, easily or of all: … To-infinitives after superlative adjectives We can use a to-infinitive after a superlative adjective, with a meaning similar to a relative clause with who, which or that: … Comparative adjectives: typical errors A comparative adjective is followed by than, not that or as: … Comparison: adverbs (worse, more easily) Adverbs do not normally change in form, but a few have comparative and superlative forms. These are usually short adverbs and so they normally have comparative and superlative forms with -er and -est. … Adverbs: comparative and superlative forms Adverbs do not normally change in form, but a few have comparative and superlative forms. These are usually short adverbs and so they normally have comparative and superlative forms with -er and -est. … Adverbs with more and most Adverbs with two or more syllables form the comparative and superlative with more and most: … Well and badly The adverb well has the same comparative and superlative forms as the adjective good (better, best). The adverb badly has the comparative and superlative forms worse, worst: … Comparative adverbs: using than When we mention the second person or thing in the comparison, we use than. We do not use that or as. If the second person mentioned takes the form of a personal pronoun, we normally use the object form of the pronoun (me, you, him, her, us, them): … Comparison: clauses (bigger than we had imagined) The second part of a comparison (underlined) is often a clause: … Comparison: comparisons of equality (as tall as his father) … Comparative forms Farther and further are comparative adverbs or adjectives. They are the irregular comparative forms of far. We use them to talk about distance. There is no difference in meaning between them. Further is more common: … Superlative forms Farthest and furthest are superlative adjectives or adverbs. They are the irregular superlative forms of far. We use them to talk about distance. There is no difference in meaning between them. Furthest is more common than farthest: … comparative | American Dictionarycomparative noun[ C ] us/kəmˈpær·ət̬·ɪv/ comparativenoun[C] (GRAMMAR)grammar the form of an adjective or adverb that shows the thing or action described has more of the quality than some others of the same type: “Faster” is the comparative of “fast.” “Better” is the comparative of “good.” comparative adjective[ not gradable ] us/kəmˈpær·ət̬·ɪv/ comparativeadjective[not gradable] (EXAMINING DIFFERENCES)considering the differences between one thing and another: The research examined the comparative effectiveness of the two medical treatments. comparativelyadverbus/kəmˈpær·ət̬·ɪv·li/ The job was comparatively well paid, as factory jobs go. Examples of comparativecomparative The analysis also confirmed the common wisdom that multisyllabic adjectives do not have synthetic comparatives. Further research on the cognitive basis of comparatives is therefore needed in order to resolve the issue. Through tower building there is a development of vocabulary from the original big and small to more selective comparatives. The list of these environments includes coordinations, lists, markers of exception and inclusion, focus particles, comparatives, and a few others. Birdies like birdseed the better than buns: a study of relational comparatives and their acquisition. They can have genitive subjects only if they can be analyzed either as free relatives clauses or as comparatives, in other words as operator-variable constructions. Percentages of synthetic comparatives produced by children identified as rule users and those identified as non-rule users for all of the children who completed the production task. They do not have comparatives or superlatives. There are three primary categories of methods for predicting protein structure from sequence: comparative modelling, fold recognition, and ab initio prediction. Comparative studies also help us to identify model systems that are perhaps better suited than more common ones to answer difficult biological questions. Our strategy for microsynteny-based comparative mapping was straightforward and simple. Our results indicate that comparative microsynteny-based mapping can facilitate positional cloning of a target gene when information on genomic location is limited. We are now in the process of modifying the pipeline to exploit comparative genome sequences more efficiently. I would prefer to reconsider the rejection of innate as a concept for ethology and comparative psychology. Much of its power resides in the comparatives different and larger. See all examples of comparative These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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