比较判断句
句型［主语+be+less表语A+than+表语B］/ ［主语+be+more表语B+than+表语A］
1. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
2. It is even more a picture than a poem. 3. He is more shy than (he is) unsocial.
4. A river that carries so much silt per cubic meter (590 kilograms-over half a ton) is more like liquid land than water
[注1] more后面如果跟形容词，形容词要用原级，如：（正）He was more angry than frightened.
(误) He was more angrier than frightened. (误) He was angrier than frightened.
[注2] 成语 "more dead than alive" (劳累已极、累得要死) 是一种夸张的说法，原意是"与其说还活着，不如说是死了。"如："Oliver, more dead than alive, could answer 'Yes'.
句型［主语+be+表语B+rather than+表语A］
1. He is an ordinary worker rather than a cadre. 2. He is rather diligent than clever.
3. The patient was worse rather than better. 4. He is an artist rather than a philosopher.
句型［主语+be+not so much+表语A+as+表语B］
1. He is not so much a scholar as a writer. (not so much…as =less…than)
2. It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
3. It is not so much advice as approval that he seeks.
[注] 该句型也常用于行为动词作谓语的句子中。如：A man's worth lies not so much in what he has as in what he is.
The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.