not……比较级：表示极度的肯定用法

听到老外说：

I can't agree with you more，翻译成“我不再同意你”，当然被笑话，

实际意思是“我非常同意你”，要表达“我不再同意你”应该说：

I can't agree with you any more.

，not ……any more 才是“不再”；

再比如听到老外说:

I haven't slept better，理解成“我从来没有睡过好觉”可不行;

实际意思是“我睡得好极了”。

not……比较级，就是最……不过，一般表示极度的肯定：

又如,在读到下面的句子时,许多朋友都很费解：

It has never been easier to insult people inadvertently .A young lady offers her seat in a

crowded bus to an elderly frail gentleman, and he gives her a dirty look because she has

insulted his manhood. 人们非常容易无意之中冒犯别人。在拥挤的公交车上一位年轻的女士主动给一个挤上车的老绅士让座，但是，他给了他一个不友好的眼神回敬她，因为她已经冒犯了他的作为绅士的尊严。

这里的：

It has never been easier to insult people inadvertently .

人们非常容易无意之中冒犯别人。

在听力试题中，相当一部分学生对“否定词+比较级”这一构把握的不是很好,也们在在把生意力集中在否定词上,结果对含有结构的句子的理解与正确含义完全相反 。

特别要注意以下几点：

1. can’t/ couldn't 的形式

I cant agree with you more 我再同意你不过了,(或:我完全句意你的意见)

The weather couldn't be worse 天气再糕不过

He couldn't have done better 他做得再好不过了

2.用于该结构中的否定词除了 not 之外,还有 no, never, nothing等,例:

This could give her no greater pleasure.

她再高兴不过了

She’s never better.她现在最好不过了。（她比以往任何时候都好。）

3.当该结构中的比棱级为less时,结构意为“一点也不”。试比较

1) He couldn't care more 他丰常介意。(或:他最关心不过了,)

He couldn't care less. 他毫不介意。(或:他最漠不关心了。)

2) He had never felt more like talking to anyone 从未如此想和人谈话。

He had never felt less like talking to anyone 他从未如此不想和人谈话

但是：nothing less than表示：与……完全一样；就是，简直是，毫无疑问是：

You're nothing less than a murderer!

你简直就是凶手！

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He is nothing less than a thief. 他简直是个小偷。

The project is nothing less than mapping every gene sequence in the human body.

这个项目就是要绘制人体所有基因序列的图谱。

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What he had in mind amounted to nothing less than a total reversalof the traditional role of the executive

他头脑中所想的简直就是对管理人员传统角色的彻底颠覆。

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nothing more than

表示：（不过）就是

The newly discovered notes are nothing more than Lang's personaljournal.

新发现的笔记只不过是朗的个人日志。

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This so-called committee is nothing more than a figure-head.

他们这所谓的委员会只是一块空招牌。

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Lucille's home was very grandly called a chateau, though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm.

露西尔的家美其名曰城堡，事实上不过是一座壕沟环绕的大农场。

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4.当 no 表示“ not at al"之意时,可以作为副词放在比较级词语前面。这时,“no+比较级”的意思并非“最……不过”

1) Are you really fifty? You look no older than thirty-five 你真的五十岁了?你最多不超过三十五岁。

2) Some people can eat what they like and get no fatter. 有些人想吃什么就吃什么,一点也不发胖。