as much as的用法
as much as
一、表示数量
1. “……之多”“多达”“整整”,强调“多”。
In fact it cost me as much as 100 dollars.
We walked as much as 50 miles that day.
2. “与……一样多”。如:
I ate as much as I could.
I’ll spend as much as necessary.
Give me as much as you gave Jane.
二、表示程度
1. “尽量”“尽最大努力(可能)”,主要用于 as...as possible/one can。
I have helped you as much as I can. Now it is up to you.
I won’t have a pudding—it was as much as I could do to finish the very large first course.
2. “像……一样(的程度)”。
We’re in the dark just as much as you are.
I don’t pretend to know as much as he does about it.
3. “与……一样多”。如:
I haven’t as much responsibility as before.
4. “好像”“几乎”“差不多”“等于”,as much as to say [saying] “等于说”。
That is as much as saying I am a liar.
He as much as admitted that it was his fault.
You said “all right”, which was as much as to say that you were satisfied.
5. “既……又”“不仅……而且”。
It is as much your responsibility as mine.
He retorted that it was my fault as much as his.
I expect to weep as much as (to) laugh.
6. 有时有较灵活的译法:
His latest play is not as much a farce as a burlesque tragedy.
他最近的一个剧本与其说是一个滑稽剧,不如说是一个滑稽的悲剧。
三、表示经常性
Do you dine out as much as you did in Paris?
Grandma’s getting on a bit and doesn’t go out as much as she used to.
so much as用于肯定句后者,so much as实际上更多用法应为not so much as多用于否定句。
1、not so much as…这个结构相当于“not even…”,所以通常翻译为“甚至不…,甚至没有…”
He didn’t so much as ask me to set down.
他甚至没有请我坐下。
He cannot so much as spell a word.
他甚至连一个词也不会写。
He hadn’t so much as his fare home.
他甚至连回家的路费都没有了。
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