Lesson 8 The best and the worst 最好的和最差的

Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town.

你喜欢、较喜欢、最喜欢？

• Which garden do you like? ⇒ I like Joe's garden.
• Which garden do you like more? ⇒ I like Bill's garden more than Joe's.
• Which garden do you like the most? ⇒ I like the worst / best garden the most.

Nearly everybody enters for 'The Nicest Garden Competition' each year,

enter for ^{报名参加（各种竞赛，考试等活动）}

but Joe wins every time.

Bill Frith's garden is larger than Joe's. ^{被比者 + be + adj./adv.比较级 + than + 比较的对象}

比较的东西都是同类的事物 joe’s 的“’s”不能省略，名词加-’s 表示所属关系，构成名词的所有格。这类名词往往指有生命的东西，特别是人。所有格的语法作用相当于形容词，限定后面的名词。这个被限定的名词在上下文中第二次被提到时可以省略，只要不引起误解。

• My eyes are bigger than yours. ^{我的眼睛比你大(中文说得不够严谨)}
• Your hat is larger than mine. ^{你的帽子比我大(英语需要使用所有格，要标明比我的帽子大，而不是比我这个人大)}
• I eat more salt than the rice you eat. ^{我吃盐比你吃的饭还多。}

Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, but Joe's garden is more interesting.

He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool.

Every year I enter for the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town!

• axe: I used my axe to chop some wood for the fire.
• bucket: We filled the bucket with water.
• bush: There is a beautiful bush growing in my garden.
• fertilizer: We mix fertilizer into the soil to help the plants grow.
• flowerbed: There are many flowers growing in the flowerbed.
• flowerpot: There is a plant growing in the flowerpot.
• garden fork: I used the garden fork to mix the fertilizer into the soil.
• grass shears: I picked up the grass shears and started cutting the grass.
• hod: I picked some beans and put them in my hod.
• hosepipe: Alice turned on the hosepipe and started watering the grass.
• rake: I use my rake to collect the autumn leaves.
• shed: We have lots of tools in our shed.
• soil: I planted some seeds in the soil.
• spade: Sam used the spade to dig a large hole.
• tree: There’s a large apple tree in our garden.
• trowel: I picked up the trowel and started to dig.
• vegetable plot: We have carrots and potatoes growing in our vegetable plot.
• watering can, watering pot: Peter watered his roses with a watering can.
• weed: There are too many weeds growing in our garden.
• wheelbarrow: Jim pushed the wheelbarrow full of soil across the garden.

形容词/副词的作用

形容词比较级 §

比较级相当于汉语中“比…更…”这种句型，最高级则表示在某个范围“最…”的概念。最高级在使用时前面通常要加定冠词 the，并有一个短语或从句限定其范围。

比较级通常用于两者之间的比较，最高级需要三个或者以上比较对象。

在2者比较时 than 是固定的(中文里的"比")，翻译为 “和....相比 + 更 ...”。

有一些双音节词既可在单词结尾加-er，-est，也可与 more/less 和 most/least 连用，如 narrow，clever， common，pleasant 等。

• clever → cleverer → more clever
• fun ^{adj. 快乐} → more fun ^{（美国人用）}

介词短语限定最高级的范围

记忆口诀:好、坏、多、少、老、远 §