more than 和greater than的区别

rosemarys

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The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's. .
A. extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
B. extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
C. extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were
D. extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
E. extinction, now with numbers five times greater than
请问A和B选项中的five times greater than 和five times more than 的区别

飘雨的午后

[em06] 偶也没弄明白呢

alanguo

number比较用greater than；其它东西多少的比较用more than.

mjiirggh

这个只是所谓的词的逻辑搭配问题，number 不可以用more来修饰，只能用greater 来修饰，只有记住就是了。