【语言的魅力】（之二）

汉语跟英语一样，在不改变字词及其数量的前提下，只在句中调换位置，就可以生出若干个有意义的句子，只是语义发生了变化。

为了活跃“英语答疑网”的气氛，我写出下面4个汉语句子。欢迎各位专家老师和各位会员网友积极参与解答。要求：翻译成英语。

1. 这两所房子大不一样。

2. 这两所房子不大一样。

3. 这两所房子不一样大。

4. 这两所房子一样不大。

首先非常感谢刘老师出题，虽然我生来愚钝，且能力很水平非常有限，但是也想试试，如果解答错误或者不妥当之处，还请大家批评指出.向大家学习.

按照刘老师出题要求，我给出了以下几个不同的翻译版本，如果有不妥当之处，还望专家老师以及会员网友给予批评指正.向大家请教学习.

翻译版本（1）

【1】The two houses are of much difference.

【2】The two houses are of a little difference.

【3】The two houses are of different size.

【4】This house is no bigger/larger than that one.

翻译版本（2）

【1】There is much difference between the two houses.

【2】There is a little difference between the two houses

【3】The sizes of the two houses are different.

【4】Neither of the two houses is very big/large.

翻译版本（3）

【1】This house is greatly different from that one.

【2】This house is slightly different from that one

【3】The two houses are not of a size.

【4】Either of the two houses is not big/large.

翻译版本（4）

【1】Much difference exists between the two houses.

【2】The two houses slightly differ from each other.

【3】The two houses are different in size

【4】Both of the two houses are small.

翻译版本（5）

【1】Of the two houses, one is quite different from the other

【2】Of the two houses, one is slightly different from the other

【3】This house is different from that one in size

【4】The two houses are not big/large.

翻译版本（6）

The two houses quite differ from each other (in appearance.)

The two houses slightly differ from each other (in appearance.)

This house doesn’t have the same size as that one .

This house is as small as that one.

【1】这两所房子大不一样。

①The two houses are of much difference.

②There is much difference between the two houses.

③This house is greatly different from that one.

④Much difference exists between the two houses.

⑤Of the two houses, one is quite different from the other

⑥The two houses quite differ from each other (in appearance.)

⑦In terms of appearance, the two houses are quite different.

⑧Compared with this house,that one is quite different 

【2】这两所房子不大一样。

①The two houses are of a little difference.

②There is a little difference between the two houses

③This house is slightly different from that one

④The two houses slightly differ from each other.

⑤Of the two houses, one is slightly different from the other

⑥The two houses slightly differ from each other (in appearance.)

⑦In terms of appearance, the two houses are slightly different.

⑧Compared with this house, that one is slightly different.

【3】这两所房子不一样大。

①The two houses are of different size.

②The sizes of the two houses are different.

③The two houses are not of a size.

④The two houses are different in size

⑤Of the two houses, one is slightly different from the other

⑥This house doesn’t have the same size as that one .

⑦In terms of size, the two house are different .

⑧The two houses are not of the same size .

【4】这两所房子一样不大。

①This house is no bigger than that one.

②Neither of the two houses is (very) big/large.

③Either of the two houses is not big/large.

④Both of the two houses are small.

⑤The two houses are not big/large.

⑥This house is as small as that one.

⑦This house is small,as is that one

⑧This house as well as that one is small.

⑨Not only this house but also that one is small/is not big/large

⑩This house is small , so is that one .