比较判断句

　　句型［主语+be+less表语A+than+表语B］/ ［主语+be+more表语B+than+表语A］

　　1. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

　　2. It is even more a picture than a poem.  3. He is more shy than (he is) unsocial.

　　4.  A river that carries so much silt per cubic meter (590 kilograms-over half a ton) is more like liquid land than water

　　[注1] more后面如果跟形容词，形容词要用原级，如：（正）He was more angry than frightened.

　　(误) He was more angrier than frightened.  (误) He was angrier than frightened.

　　[注2] 成语 "more dead than alive" (劳累已极、累得要死) 是一种夸张的说法，原意是"与其说还活着，不如说是死了。"如："Oliver, more dead than alive, could answer 'Yes'.

　　句型［主语+be+表语B+rather than+表语A］

　　1. He is an ordinary worker rather than a cadre.  2. He is rather diligent than clever.

　　3.  The patient was worse rather than better.  4. He is an artist rather than a philosopher.

　　句型［主语+be+not so much+表语A+as+表语B］

　　1. He is not so much a scholar as a writer. (not so much…as =less…than)

　　2. It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

　　3. It is not so much advice as approval that he seeks.

　　[注] 该句型也常用于行为动词作谓语的句子中。如：A man's worth lies not so much in what he has as in what he is.

　　The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.

　　互斥判断句

　　句型主语+be+(either)表语A+or+表语B］/［(Either)主语A+or+主语B +be+表语］

　　1. He or you are mistaken. You or he is mistaken.

　　2. He is at the office or at the workshop.  3. Either your brakes or your eyesight is at fault.

　　4.  It is wrong to regard our work either as totally good or as completely bad.

　　5.  Either he is right or I am. (=Either he or I am right.)

　　[注] 该句型可以采用简易方式："If it is not…it is…" 如：if it is not taking the socialist road, it is taking the capitalist road.