【論点61：比較級(Comparative Degree)の総論】

⓪ Father understood less of money matters than a child. ① Some medicine does more harm than (it does) good. ② He was more shy than (he was) unsociable. ③ Technique conferred a sense of power; man is now much less at the mercy of his environment than he was in former times. But the power conferred by technique is social, not individual; an average individual wrecked on a desert island could have achieved more three centuries ago than he could now. ④ The weather of yesterday was meaner than any we have experienced for years. ⑤ It is more necessary than ever for all of you to work hard. ⑥ There are few things more important than the proper care of our teeth. ⑦ We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be in danger. ⑧ As a man gets richer and richer, it became easier and easier to make money. ⑨ The ship was no stronger than a nutshell. ⑩ I am not more sure that I breathe than I am that something lies behinds his sudden resignation. ⑪ No other dog is less ugly than this one. = This dog is the least ugly of all. ⑫ I’m sure no other girl is less ugly than you. ⑬ If you don’t know, I know still less. ⑭ I would rather have died than refused. ⑮ I would rather quit than do that job.= I would quit before I would do that job.