① Are you at all sorry for the trouble you have caused?

② If you do it at all, do it well.

③ She showed no interest whatever in politics.

= She showed no interest at all in politics.

① There isn’t the least rain in that part of the country.

② There’s not the least danger.

① Without the love of books the richest man is poor ; but endowed with this treasure of treasures, the poorest

man is rich.

② Just as his passion reached its height, there entered a lady who wished to buy medicine. Alarmed at what was going on, she turned again, and hurried away. Her friends were not long in learning from her that the new chemist was a most violent man, a most disagreeable man———the very last man one could think of doing business with.

③ She is happiest in my company.

④ The storm was most violent towards morning.

⑤ The building is built of marble of a most lovely colour.

① Ted is three years senior to me.

= Ted is three years my senior.

= Ted is three years older than I.

= Ted is senior to me by three years.

= Ted is my senior by three years.

= Ted is older than I by three years.

= I am three years junior to Ted.

② For anglers, a rainy day seems to be preferable to a fine day.

① He has more than four children. (4＜X、事実上5≦X)

② He has not more than four children. (4≧X)

③ He weighs no more than sixty kilograms. (否定的にHe=60kg)

= He weighs only sixty kilograms.

④ He weighs not more than sixty kilograms. (He≦60kg)

= He weighs at most sixty kilograms.

⑤ He weighs no less than sixty kilograms. (肯定的にHe=60kg)

= He weighs as much as sixty kilograms.

⑥ He weighs not less than sixty kilograms. (He≧60kg)

= He weighs at least sixty kilograms.

⑦ Tom is as tall as Jerry.(≧)

⑧ Tom is at least as tall as Jerry.(≧)

⑨ Tom is exactly as tall as Jerry(=)

⑩ Jerry is not as tall as Tom.(＜)

⑪ Elephant is as big as any animal on the land.(≧)

⑫ The school has not more than four or five hundred students. (500≧X)

⓪ Ema is no more attractive than her younger sister. [「クジラ」か「差がゼロ」か]

① My mother loved me no less ardently than my brother. [「逆クジラ」か「差がゼロ」か]

② She is no younger than I.[「差がゼロ」]

③ Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife. [「差がゼロ」]

④ My house is no better than a log cabin. [「差がゼロ」]

⑤ Your test result was no worse than anyone else. [「差がゼロ」]

⓪ A whale is no more a fish than a horse is. = A whale is not a fish any more than a horse is.

① I am no more mad than you are. = I am not mad any more than you are.

② A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man.

= A home without love is not a home any more than a body without a soul is a man.

③ A born poet can no more help being a poet than an eagle can help soaring.

④ A whale is no less a mammal than a horse is.

⑤ I would no less feel a loss if you were gone than if I lost all my possessions.

① He has had a week’s holiday and looks all the better for it.

② if you annoy him, he’s all the less likely to help us.

③ He is a little awkward in his manners, but we cannot praise his wisdom the less.

① When you look at a flowering plant, look for details of the flower, fruit, stem, and leaves, use a magnifying glass. The more you look, the more you will see, and the more interesting flowers become.

② The more widely the habit of reading spreads, and the more the people listen to the same language used over the radio and in the movies, the less variation there will be in the speech of those speaking the same language. With these strong influences working to make language uniform, it will be but natural for language to become more stable in time as well as in space. In other words, changes in a language will come more slowly.

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.