（1）He is as much a stranger in the village today as he was the first summer he arrived. (TOEFL)
(2) That is as much as to say that I am a liar. (ALD)
句(1)和句(2)中的 as much(...) as 和 as much as 的意义和用法是否相同?
句(1)中 as much...as 是指“情况(程度)与……相同”。as 引导一个从句,句(1)可译为:他今天在村里仍是个陌生人,就像他来到村子的第一个夏天那样。类例:
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You hated him as much as I. 你恨他像我恨他一样深。
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I agree with you as much as [ (I agree) with ] Robert. (CGEL) 我同意你跟同意罗伯特的程度是一样的。
句(2)中的 as much as 的意思是“(几乎)等于”“差不多”, 整个短语起状语作用。句(2)可译为: 这几乎等于说我是个说谎者。类例:
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I as much as realized that it was a mistake. 我差不多已认识到这是个错误。
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You as much as promised you would help me. 你实际上已答应要帮助我。
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The clerk as much as told me that I was a fool. (DAI) 那个职员无异于说我是个傻瓜。请做下面的英语试题：
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The atmosphere is as much a part of the earth as ____ its soils and the water of its lakes, rivers and oceans.
A. are B. is C. do D. has(全国六级,90.1-44)
- Language belongs to each one of us, to the flower-seller ____ to the professor.
A. as much as B. as far as C. the same as D. as long as(全国六级,91.6-68)
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The ideal listener stays both inside and outside the music at the moment it is played and enjoying it almost as much as the composer at the moment he composes. (全国研考,00-19)
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Language belongs to each member of the society, to the cleaner ____ to the professor. A. as far as B. the same as C. as much as D. as long as(全国英语专业四级,98-47) as much (…) as
Some dieters find that after their dieting is over, they eat twice ____ they did before their diet. A. more than B. as many as C. much than D. as much as (全国英语专业四级,93-55) 《英语专业四级统考真题解析》(南开大学出版社,p.350)对上题作了如下解答：
“答案为 D。……表示倍数的比较句型不能用 more than ……”
请问 more than 真的不能用于表示倍数的句型中吗？
as much (many) ... as
上面的试题有重大失误:选项 D 和 A 都是正确的,而且意思相同,见 n times more than, as much as, times 。我们在教学和测试中必须彻底摈弃 more than 不能用于表示倍数的错误观点。