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| ( very, quite, so). | , | John swims best. . How very interesting! ! He is quite the best dancer I know. , . |
| no more than, more than, much less | , ( ) | She didnt expect me to believe her, any more than she believed it herself. , , . His statement was not mentioned, much less discussed in these circles. , , . |
| rather than | , , , , , , , | He wanted to stay at home rather than to go out. , . |
: , the more the better the . .
1. , .
1. That was the building that he liked best in all the city.
2. This problem y proved to be one of the biggest problems of the century.
3. He cited one of the better scientists in the field.
4. The findings of the mission include: the desirability of the countries concerned to meet and discuss early how best to initiate further actions.
5. Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.
2. , .
1. She realized suddenly how very wrong she was.
2. Think of something not quite so expensive.
3. Hans and Peter are quite the best students at the university.
4. You have spoken a little too much tonight.
5. How very original she is!
6. It is a bit too much.
7. She was interested to see how very difficult the issues for discussion seemed.
8. But he had been a little too quick at this point.
9. In the end she found herself obliged to quite a little lecture.
3. , .
1. He was no more an amateur than his fellow students, and at least as clever.
2. She had not thanked me for my suggestions, much less commented upon them.
3. I had never heard a bribe, in crude sense, so much as hinted at, anywhere near these people, much less offered.
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4. These peoples politics were not his policies. They didnt know the world they were living in, much less the world that was going to come.
4. rather than.
1. These uniform fields are the exception rather than the rule.
2. This should facilitate rather than hinder necessary change.
3. Rather than to facilitate necessary changes these programs hindered them.
4. This point of view is that of a mathematician rather than a physicist.
5. the the .
1. The harder he labored, the less he was fatigued.
2. The less a man knows the more content he is with his intellectual capacity.
3. The closer N to 1 the better does the system meet the formulated task.
4. The broader the knowledge available the sooner are the difficulties explained.
5. The more attentively you listen the more you hear.
6. , .
Arriving from Outer Space
Suppose that we were space travellers, visiting the earth from some distant planet. It would be difficult to detect much trace of the atmosphere until we were in the region of the lower part of the orbit of the first Sputnik, say between 200 and 300 miles up. At that distance from the earth the pressure of the atmosphere, which measures the weight of the air above us, is less than one millionth of that on the ground. This means we would be moving in what is called a vacuum on earth, for at this level, pressure is lower than that which can be reached by the finest laboratory pumps.
Having passed through the stratosphere, we would enter the atmosphere, or region of weather. Meteorologists are interested in the whole atmosphere, but especially in the troposphere, because it is only in this relatively thin layer that we find weather, that is clouds, fogs, rain, hail and snow.
In general the higher one goes in the atmosphere, the colder the air becomes. This seems odd at first, because by climbing up we are getting nearer to the sun, from which we get all our heat. The explanation is that the rays of the sun are not very effective in heating air directly. Most of the energy in a sun beam passes through clear air with very little absorption. What happens is that the suns rays heat the surface of the earth, both the ground and the sea, and it is from the warm surface that the atmosphere receives most of the energy which appears as wind, and causes weather generally.
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