像美国人那样说英语:常用句型286
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Lesson 16 ……junior to……年纪较……低/职位较……低

句型“……junior to……”的标准形式是“主语+谓语+junior等形容词+to……”。该句型用介词“to”来连接被比较的对象,而不能用“than”。翻译为“年纪较……低/职位较……低”。

征服句型

●Your son is one month junior to my daughter.

你的儿子比我的女儿小一个月。

●My salary is just 100 dollars junior to my superior.

我的收入只比我的上司低100美元。

●I’m his nephew, though he is junior to me.

我是他的外甥,尽管他比我小。

●The president in our school is junior to the educational bureau director by several years.

我们学校的校长比教育局的局长还年轻几岁。

●All my foreign friends are studying in the junior Chinese class.

我所有的外国朋友都在初级中文班学习。

征服对话

●How old is your youngest son?

●5 years old.

●He is junior to my son by three years.

你的小儿子多大了?

5岁了。

他比我的儿子小3岁。

●He is a department head, though his education is junior to my son.

●He has excellent communication skills.

他是部门主任,即使他的学历比我儿子低。他的交际能力出色。

●How old is the boy?He looks so young.

●25 years old.He is junior to many other people who work here.

那个男孩多大了?他看起来很年轻。

25岁。他比在这里工作的许多其他人的资历都浅。

Tips

可以用于本句型的形容词有:senior、superior、inferior等。例如:Your son’s salary is inferior to my son’s.你儿子的工资比我儿子的低。