203. Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal accident as a teenager driving alone.
译文事实上,一个16岁的司机在载着三个或者三个以上乘客时发生严重交通事故的几率,是他独自开车时发生事故几率的三倍。
点睛在本句中,with引导伴随状语。本句的表语部分为as...as结构。
fatal意为“致命的;毁灭性的”。如:
Death is instantaneous in a fatal accident. 在致命的事故中,死亡是瞬间发生的。
考点归纳英语中关于倍数的表达包括:
用time表示比较的说法,包括以下三种:
1) A is N times as...as B.
2) A is N times...than B.
3) A is N times the (size, length, amount...) of B.
以上三句都表示A的(大小、长度、数量……)是B的N倍。如:
This book is three times as long as (three times longer than/three times the length of) that one. 这本书的篇幅是那本书的三倍。
用专门表示倍数的词,包括:double(增加一倍)、treble(增加两倍)、quadruple(增加三倍)等。如:
The efficiency of these machines has been more than trebled or quadrupled. 这些机器的效率已提高了两倍或三倍多。
用表示变化的动词(如:increase,decrease,rise,drop,fall等)与介词to和by再加time搭配使用。其中介词to表示“……到N倍”,介词by表示“……了N倍”。如:
l) The output of chemical fertilizer has been raised to five times that of 1986. 化肥产量增长到1986年的五倍。
2) That can increase metabolic rates by two or three times. 那可使代谢率提高两倍或三倍。