一道猪猪牛牛的比较题

eyesoneye

prep笔记上面的一个句子，惊鸿一瞥滴让我森森的觉得有点问题，在此请各位帮忙解答
the farm has more than twice as many cows as it has pigs.我觉得这里it has是多余了，删掉也不会影响意思，就直接当做是cow and pig的比较而不是has cow 和 has pigs的比较。。

xuchaodream

我想是has cows和has pigs 比較吧。

the farm has more than twice as many cows as pigs.

可能是 the farm has more than twice as many cows as  it has pigs ,
但也可能是 the farm has more than twice as many cows as pigs have cows.

eyesoneye

对哈，童鞋分析得好精准。。比较的省略一直是一根刺，你说这里其实省略了应该也不会有歧义吧 毕竟pig是不可能has cow的。

wintertrain

prep笔记上面的一个句子，惊鸿一瞥滴让我森森的觉得有点问题，在此请各位帮忙解答
the farm has more than ...
eyesoneye 发表于 2012-6-13 07:04

我想问题下这个句子是出自哪里的呢？我觉得楼主说得有道理！
我觉得这个句子是不对的呀~因为这句话的意思是farm里的cow是pig的两倍，比较的是cow和pig的数量. 但是如果你说as it has pigs就感觉是比较has pigs。 就不符合逻辑了！也希望NN讨论一下！
(a) I have 10 times as many MP3s as my father. OK
(b) I have 10 times as many MP3s as was the case before I bought a computer. Awkward but OK.
(c) I have 10 times as many MP3s as I had MP3s before I bought a computer. BAD. Wrong. Why is (c) so bad? You are comparing the number of MP3s (I now have 10 times as many). By repeating the noun (MP3s) and verb (had), it sounds like you are saying that what is 10 x is greater is not the number of MP3s but having the MP3s. It doesn't make sense. In Stacy's explanation, the energy is implied, but restating it (or replacing it with 'it') really confuses the sentence, just as my example in (c) is really confusing.