than
比,比起,超过,高于
Definitions
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- : : She's taller than I am.
- : : I had no choice other than that. You won't find such freedom anywhere else than in this country.
- : : I'd rather walk than drive there.
- : except; other than: We had no choice than to return home.
- : when: We had barely arrived than we had to leave again.
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- : in relation to; by comparison with: He is a person than whom I can imagine no one more courteous.
Examples
And yet as Robert Ward discovered, Marvin—for all of his larger-than-life machismo—was surprising in real life.
My younger, straighter-than-an-arrow son was stopped and arrested in two separate jurisdictions a few years ago.
He was the larger-than-the-life figure, and he loomed impossibly large over this campaign.
Barack Obama is in for a rougher-than-usual couple of months.
Kim is mocking the entire value system on which she built her career, as well as her own less-than-savory past.
Jack probably learned more about the Bible during that trip-its history and its heroes-than during all his former years.
"The Wright brothers invented the lighter-than-air ship early in the twentieth century," he said.
Rugel told him that this was the moment of equilibrium, the peak of the faster-than-light motion.
The competitor who paid the less-than-carload rate on an equal volume of business would be sadly handicapped.
Altogether, it was not until the nineteenth century that any real progress toward flight in a heavier-than-air machine was made.