「As … as」とは？意味、語順、使い方について詳しく説明
as + 形容詞/副詞 + as を使用して、比較対象が何らかの形で等しい場合に比較を行います。
The world’s biggest bull is as big as a small elephant.
The weather this summer is as bad as last year. It hasn’t stopped raining for weeks.
You have to unwrap it as carefully as you can. It’s quite fragile.
以下も参照してください。
…ほど Not as
not as … as を使用して、等しくないものを比較します。
It’s not as heavy as I thought it would be, actually.
Rory has n’t grown as tall as Tommy yet.
She’s not singing as loudly as she can.
They did n’t play as well as they usually do.
not as … as は、 not quite as または not nearly as as を使用して変更できます。
The second race was not quite as easy as the first one. (2 番目のレースは簡単でしたが、最初のレースは簡単でした。)
These new shoes are not nearly as comfortable as my old ones. (私の古い靴はこれらの新しい靴よりずっと快適です.)
not so … as. Not so … as そうでは not so … as. Not so … as は not as … as よりも一般的ではありません:
The cycling was good but not so hard as the cross country skiing we did.
As … as + 可能性
as … as の後に、可能性や能力の表現をよく使用します。
Can you come as soon as possible ?
Go to as many places as you can .
We got here as fast as we could .
As much as as many as
量について比較したいときは、不可算名詞と同じくらい as many as 、複数名詞と as much as を使います。
Greg makes as much money as Mick but not as much as Neil.
They try to give them as much freedom as they can.
There weren’t as many people there as I expected.
多数のものを参照するために、数値の前に as much as と as many as を使用できます。
Scientists have discovered a planet which weighs as much as 2,500 times the weight of Earth.
There were as many as 50 people crowded into the tiny room.