| 正面 | 713.than 英 [ðæn; ð(ə)n]美 [ðæn]     |
|---|---|
| 背面 |      释义： 1. from PIE root *sker- "cut".2. share 【晒啊，网络用语】分享，共享，分配，份额conj. 比（用于形容词、副词的比较级之后）；除…外（用于other等之后）；与其…（用于 rather等之后）；一…就（用于 no sooner等之后）prep. 比；超过n. (Than)人名；(老、柬、德)坦；(缅)丹 例句： 1. Their replies were no more than grunts of acknowledgement.他们所谓的回答不过是表示承认的咕哝罢了。 than 比，比较来自 then 的拼写变体，并于 18 世纪开始成为两个不同的词，并产生词义上的分化。如 A is bigger than B,原义为 A is bigger,then B. thanthan: [OE] Than is ultimately the same word as then, and the two were used interchangeably until the end of the 17th century. It is not clear how the adverb came to be used as a conjunction denoting comparison, although it is possible that the comparison implicit in expressions like ‘This one is better; then there is that one’ may have led on to ‘This one is better than that one’.=> thenthan (conj.)Old English þan, conjunctive particle used after a comparative adjective or adverb, from þanne, þænne, þonne "then" (see then). Developed from the adverb then, and not distinguished from it by spelling until c. 1700. The earliest use is in West Germanic comparative forms introducing the second member, i.e. bigger than (compare Dutch dan, German denn), which suggests a semantic development from the demonstrative sense of then: A is bigger than B, evolving from A is bigger, then ("after that") B. Or the word may trace to Old English þonne "when, when as," such as "When as" B is big, A is more (so)." |