much /mʌtʃ/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  ADV You use much to indicate the great intensity, extent, or degree of something such as an action, feeling, or change. Much is usually used with "so," "too," and "very," and in negative clauses with this meaning. (做得、感到得、变得等) 多地 [ADV after v]

  例：

  She laughs too much.

  她笑得太多了。

  例：

  Thank you very much.

  非常感谢您。

• 2. 

  ADV If something does not happen much, it does not happen very often. (发生得) 多地 (常用于否定句)

  例：

  He said that his father never talked much about the war.

  他说他父亲从不多谈这场战争。

  例：

  Gwen had not seen her dad all that much, because mostly he worked on the ships.

  格温见她爸爸不是很多，因为他多数时间都在船上工作。

• 3. 

  ADV You use much in front of "too" or comparative adjectives and adverbs in order to emphasize that there is a large amount of a particular quality. 很大程度上 (用于比较级或)(too)(前) [强调]

  例：

  The skin is much too delicate.

  皮肤太过娇嫩了。

• 4. 

  ADV If one thing is much the same as another thing, it is very similar to it. 很 (像…那样)

  例：

  The day ended much as it began.

  这一天结束时还像开始时一样。

• 5. 

  DET You use much to indicate that you are referring to a large amount of a substance or thing. 多的

  例：

  They are grown on the hillsides in full sun, without much water.

  它们被种在阳光充足、没有多少水分的山坡上。

  例：

  Japan has been reluctant to offer much aid to Russia.

  日本向来不愿为俄罗斯提供多少援助。

• 6. 

  PRON Much is also a pronoun. 多

  例：

  ...eating too much and drinking too much.

  …暴饮暴食。

• 7. 

  QUANT Much is also a quantifier. 多

  例：

  Much of the time we do not notice that we are solving problems.

  很多时候我们没有注意到我们正在解决问题。

• 8. 

  ADV You use much in expressions such as not much, not very much, and too much when replying to questions about amounts. 多地 (too much##much)(等表达中) [ADV as reply]

  例：

  "Can you hear it where you live?" He shook his head. "Not much."

  “在你住的地方能听到吗？”他摇摇头：“不怎么听得到。”

• 9. 

  QUANT If you do not see much of someone, you do not see them very often. 多 (见面) [with brd-neg, QUANT 'of' n-proper/pron]

  例：

  I don't see much of Tony nowadays.

  我现在见托尼不多。

• 10. 

  DET You use much in the expression how much to ask questions about amounts or degrees, and also in reported clauses and statements to give information about the amount or degree of something. 多少的

  例：

  How much money can I afford?

  我能出得起多少钱？

• 11. 

  ADV Much is also an adverb. 多少

  例：

  She knows how much this upsets me but she persists in doing it.

  她知道这让我有多烦，但她还是坚持这么做。

• 12. 

  PRON Much is also a pronoun. 多少 ['how' PRON]

  例：

  How much do you earn?

  你挣多少？

• 13. 

  DET You use much in the expression as much when you are comparing amounts. (和…一样) 多的

  例：

  I shall try, with as much patience as is possible, to explain yet again.

  我会尽量耐心地再解释一遍。

  例：

  Their aim will be to produce as much milk as possible.

  他们的目标是尽可能多地产奶。

• 14. 

  PHRASE You use much as to introduce a fact which makes something else you have just said or will say rather surprising. 尽管

  例：

  Much as they hope to go home tomorrow, they're resigned to staying on until the end of the year.

  尽管他们很希望明天就回家，但不得不待到年底。

• 15. 

  PHRASE You use as much in expressions such as "I thought as much" and "I guessed as much" after you have just been told something and you want to say that you already believed or expected it to be true. 如此

  例：

  You're waiting for a woman – I thought as much.

  你在等一个女人–这我早料到了。

• 16. 

  PHRASE You use as much as before an amount to suggest that it is surprisingly large. 多达 [强调]

  例：

  The organizers hope to raise as much as $6M for charity.

  组织者们希望筹集到多达6百万美元的慈善款。

• 17. 

  PHRASE You use much less after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next. 更不用说

  例：

  They are always short of water to drink, much less to bathe in.

  他们总是缺饮用水，更不用说洗澡水了。

• 18. 

  PHRASE If you say that something is not so much one thing as another, you mean that it is more like the second thing than the first. (不如…) 那么多

  例：

  I don't really think of her as a daughter so much as a very good friend.

  我其实更多地把她当做好朋友，而不是女儿。

• 19. 

  PHRASE You use so much so to indicate that your previous statement is true to a very great extent, and therefore it has the result mentioned. 到如此程度以至于

  例：

  He himself believed in freedom, so much so that he would rather die than live without it.

  他本人如此信奉自由，以至于宁死也不愿没有自由地活着。

• 20. 

  PHRASE If a situation or action is too much for you, it is so difficult, tiring, or upsetting that you cannot cope with it. 非…所能忍受; 非…力所能及

  例：

  His inability to stay at one job for long had finally proved too much for her.

  他干什么工作都不能长久，终于让她无法忍受。

• 21. 

  PHRASE You use very much to emphasize that someone or something has a lot of a particular quality, or that the description you are about to give is particularly accurate. 非常 [强调]

  例：

  ...a man very much in charge of himself.

  …一个很能自制的人。

• 22. 

  a bit much →see bit