A new telescope, over twice the size, was recently built at Sugar Grove in West Virginia. (New Concept English, Book 3, L. 55)
[原译1]最近在西弗吉尼亚州的休格葛罗夫新建造的一台望远镜，比它大两倍多。（中译本）
[原译2]最近一个比它大两倍的新的射电望远镜在西弗吉尼亚州的休格格罗夫建成。（外研社版，p.110）
请问 twice the size 是指“比……大两倍”，还是指“是……的两倍”？
是指“是……的两倍”或“比……大一倍”，见 as much as, large, n times more than。twice
This airplane flies two times faster than that one.
这架飞机的飞行速度比那一架快一倍。(《翻译通讯》1982年第5期)上面的英文句子是否正确?
按照英语惯用法,当 n times more ... than 中的 n=2 时,一般采用 twice as many ... as 或 twice as much ... as 的格式,而不采用 two times more ... than 或 twice more ... than 的格式。例如:
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The data in Table 2, taken with exactly the same arrangement as before but with the force doubled, shows that the velocity increases twice as fast as before. Instead of we obtain .用与前次实验完全相同的装置但用二倍的力，我们得出了表2中的数据，它们表明速度的增快是前次的二倍。我们得到 厘米/秒²，而不是 厘米/秒²。
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They want at least to double their salaries. (= 'twice as much as they now earn') 他们要求把他们的工资增加一倍。
请做下面的英语试题：
The boy students in this school are nearly ____ as the girl students to say they intend to get a college degree in business.
A. as likely twice B. likely as twice
C. as twice likely D. twice as likely(全国六级,95.1-49)