than / ðæn, ðɛn; unstressed ðən, ən /

⭐基础词汇比起超过高于

than2 个定义

conj. 连词 conjunction
  1. : She's taller than I am.
  2. : I had no choice other than that. You won't find such freedom anywhere else than in this country.
  3. : I'd rather walk than drive there.
prep. 介词、前置词 preposition
  1. in relation to; by comparison with: He is a person than whom I can imagine no one more courteous.

更多than例句

  1. And yet as Robert Ward discovered, Marvin—for all of his larger-than-life machismo—was surprising in real life.
  2. My younger, straighter-than-an-arrow son was stopped and arrested in two separate jurisdictions a few years ago.
  3. He was the larger-than-the-life figure, and he loomed impossibly large over this campaign.
  4. Barack Obama is in for a rougher-than-usual couple of months.
  5. Kim is mocking the entire value system on which she built her career, as well as her own less-than-savory past.
  6. Jack probably learned more about the Bible during that trip-its history and its heroes-than during all his former years.
  7. "The Wright brothers invented the lighter-than-air ship early in the twentieth century," he said.
  8. Rugel told him that this was the moment of equilibrium, the peak of the faster-than-light motion.
  9. The competitor who paid the less-than-carload rate on an equal volume of business would be sadly handicapped.
  10. Altogether, it was not until the nineteenth century that any real progress toward flight in a heavier-than-air machine was made.