【第6章：比較編】【論点54：同等比較】

① He is as wise as a monkey. ② He is as poor as a church mouse. ③ They are as like as chalk and cheese. ④ I am as anxious to learn all I can about your country as you are to learn about mine. ⑤ She works as carefully as she does quickly. ⑥ The poor novelist of the bygone time has about as much chance as an accordion in a thunderstorm. ⑦ The sky is as blue as blue can be. ⑧ As many as five of the twelve soon believed that his views were just. ⑨ Mrs. Curie treated as much as twenty kilograms of pitch-blend at a time. ⑩ The work was finished as late as last month. ⑪ He made six mistakes in as many lines. ⑫ I waited for fifteen minutes——they seemed as many hours. ⑬ The lamps shone like so many stars. ⑭ He has two books, but has to buy as many more. ⑮ The boys climbed the tree like so many monkeys. ⑯ I don’t believe she had five short days’ good health in as many long years. ⑰ Here is ten dollars, and I have as much at home. ⑱ “I’ve quarrelled with my husband.” “I guessed as much.” ⑲ He was caught cheating in the examination. I thought as much. ⑳ “No, thank you.” She told me just as much. ㉑ He was greatly respected, and his brother as much despised. ㉒ He looks upon any time not spent in study as so much lost. ㉓ He was as good as dead after so much exercise. ㉔ I try to be as good as my word. ㉕ The monkey devoured every chestnut as fast as it was pulled out. ㉖ As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but sand. ㉗ He was all right as far as money went. ㉘ One may as well not know a thing at all as know it but imperfectly.