3 double + the amount + than的语法知识提问

“We're pleased!” ExxonMobil's CEO, Darren Woods, said on an earnings call last month, speaking about the Inflation Reduction Act. The world is currently on track to produce double the amount of coal,oil and gas in 2030 than is consistent with capping warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. Note the following: climate policy should strike fear into the hearts of fossil fuel executives, not delight them. So what have some of the world's worst polluters found to like about a historic piece of climate legislation?

 

句子The world is currently on track to produce double the amount of coal,oil and gas in 2030 than is consistent with capping warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius使用了double + the amount + than类似结构以前学习中未曾接触过。请问老师如何分析句子的语法结构和含义,谢谢!
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最佳答案 2024-05-31 21:06

以下是对这个问题的部分探索过程,仅供参考。 

一、猜想

平时我们常见的是以下表示比较结构:

1) as ... as

2) more ... than

3) double / twice the + 名词

但是有时候比较结构会出现混搭现象,虽然不太规范,猜想上述句中的double the amount than也属此类

 二、求证

网友把这部分提炼为double the amount than,非常好,方便查找

1. 合规性

在国外论坛上有网友问到Double the number of ... AS/THAN/THAT?attachments-2024-05-ca5QA7dD665877caa1bfd.png回答是用that。鉴于回答者并非英语国家人士,所以权威性存在一定

 【搜索方法】

打开forum.wordreference.com,点击最右侧的Search栏,输入double the amount than,结果中会包含Double the number of ... AS/THAN/THAT?的帖子标题

 2. 频率

虽然回答存疑,但是借助于上述有关提问,我们可以运用语料库查询三种表达的使用频率。

从语料库查询的结果来看,最常规的写法是double the amount that(定从)的结构,共计300多条(包括同义词,下同)attachments-2024-05-WNvLqCOz6658781d1f5c7.png

thanas的使用频率差不多,都是30来条

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个人感觉原文用than,意思倒是显得更清晰了。而遇到than当介词用时,转换为that从句改动可能比较大。

 【搜索方法】

打开https://www.english-corpora.org/now/(比coca语料库大一些,不同语料库的结果也会存在差别),在搜索栏中输入double the [=amount] than,其中[=amount]表示包含amount的同义词。

 三、思考

1. double the amount than属于比较结构的混搭类型,与double the amount thatdouble the amount as同义,指……的两倍。这可以类比n times as ... asn times more ... than都表示……n。我们可以通过对数据进行溯源来证明这一点。例如下面的材料都出现double the amount than,而两个数字是两倍的关系。attachments-2024-05-sg7QuQVR6658791839542.pngattachments-2024-05-vGm6i52U6658792b262ad.png

2. 比较结构的其他混搭类型包括(不限于):as ... than

例如:在人教版的高中英语选择性必修第二册有这样一句(第32页):

And in America, people who receive 25% of their daily calories or more through sugar are twice as likely to die from heart disease than people who receive less than 10% a day.

 【搜索方法】

打开https://www.cpsenglish.com/,在搜索栏中输入as than 混搭。

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