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副词的比较级和最高级形式
1） 副词和形容词一样，也有比较级和最高级形式。但单音节词和少数双音节词可以加词尾的方法构成比较级和最高级（a），双音节词和多音节词大多以加more和most的方法构成比较级和最高级（b）：
原级 比较级 最高级
a. hard harder hardest
fast faster fastest
late later latest
early earlier earliest
b. quickly more quickly most
quickly
strongly more strongly most strongly
carefully more carefully most carefully
efficiently more efficiently most efficiently
副词的比较级和最高级也有不规则的形式：
原级 比较级 最高级
well better best
badly worse worst
little less least
much more most
far farther, further farthest, furthest
副词比较级的用法
1） 单独使用：
Try to do better next time. 下次争取干好一点。
I had seen the film only a few days earlier.
我是几天前才看的这部电影。
He’ll come back sooner or later. 他迟早会回来的。
Please speak more slowly. 请讲慢一点。
I determined not to travel farther that night. 我决定那天晚上不再往前走了。
Let’stalk more another time. 改天我们再多聊聊。
Can’t you stay longer? 你不能再多呆一会吗？
She did not argue further about it. 她没进一步争论此事。
He should speak less and listen more.他应当少说多听。
She was determined to work harder in future. 她决心以后更用功一些。
2） 和than一起使用：
She swims better than I. 他游泳游得比我好。
He works less than he used
to. 他工作的时间比过去少了。
Gray loathed him more than ever. 格雷比过去更讨厌他了。
He arrived earlier than usual. 他到得比平时早。
I go there more frequently than she does. 我去那里比她勤。
Perhaps they like you better than me. 或许他们喜欢你胜过喜欢我。
He studied the subject further than I do. 这问题他研究得比我深入。
3） 比较级前有时可有状语修饰：
You must work much
faster. 你必须大大加快干活的速度。
He walked no further. 他没再往前走。
She could dance even more gracefully than a dancer. 她能比舞蹈演员跳得还美。
Helen came late, but her sister came still later. 海伦来晚了，而她妹妹来得更晚。
They walked three miles farther (on). 他们往前又走了三英里。
China is a little further south than the U.S. 中国比美国稍微靠南一点。
We reached the destination two days earlier than the others. 我们比别人早两天到达目的地。
He works a lot harder than before. 她工作比过去努力多了。
You speak English far more fluently than the others.
你讲英语比其他人流利得多。
副词最高级可修饰动词，前面多数不带定冠词the：
I shall give a price to the pupil who reads best. 我将给朗读最好的学生发一份奖品。
He laughs best who laughs last. （谚）谁笑在最后谁笑得最好。
Of the four of us, I sang (the) worst. 我们四人中我唱得最差。
Of these sports, I like rowing most. 这些运动中我最喜欢划船。
Of all your CDs, I like that one least. 你所有的激光唱盘中，我最不喜欢那一张。
He went (the) farthest of the explorers. 这些探险家中他走得最远。
He likes painting best of all. 他最喜欢绘画。
Who arrived (the) earliest of all? 谁到得最早？
During the famine, the poor people suffered (the) most. 在饥荒期间，穷人受苦最深。
The burden fell most heavily on these people. 这些人的负担最沉重。
She behaved most generously. 她表现得最大方。
副词比较级和最高级还可用在一些特别结构或短语中：
1） more and more 越来越…：
It rained more and more heavily. 雨下得越来越大了。
Indeed, she liked him more and more. 的确她越来越喜欢他了。
Now we see it more and more clearly. 现在我们对这看得越来越清楚了。
He played the piano better and better. 他钢琴弹得越来越好了。
She went farther and farther away. 她越走越远了。
Easter is drawing nearer and nearer. 复活节越来越近了。
2） the more…the more越…，越…：
The more I work, the more I accomplish. 我干得越多，完成得就越多。
The more I thought, the more extraordinary did it appear. 我越想，这事就越显得离奇。
The better I knew, the more I liked him. 我对他说了解越深就越喜欢他。
The more we are together, the merrier we will be. 我们越多在一起就越高兴。
3） had better最好：
We’d better not disturb him. 我们最好不要打扰他。
What had we better do? 我们最好怎么办？
I think I’d better be going. 我想我最好还是走。
(Had) better not wait for them. 最好别等他们了。
4） know better than (to) do something 懂得不宜做某事：
You ought to know better than to
go out without an overcoat on such a cold day. 你应当懂得这样冷的天不穿大衣出去可不行。
You ought to know better than stay away from school. 你该知道不应当逃学。
He knew better than to mention this to her. 他知道不宜向她提及此事。
5） think better (of)改变主意，决定不这样做：
He was going to leave school, but later he thought better of it. 他打算退学，但后来改变了主意。
He used to be a radical and thought better of it. 他以前是个激进分子，后来改变了看法。
He was going to answer me back, but he thought better of it. 他本想和我顶嘴的，但没有这样做。
6） had best最好：
I had best fax them our plans. 我最好把我们的计划传真给他们。
I had best have your opinions first. 我最好先听听你的意见。
We had best get home before midnight. 我们最好午夜以前到家。
