Professonal English for Chemical Engineering(化工专业英语)---6.pptVIP

The outer portion of the wheel may travel as fast as 600 mils per hour 轮子外缘的运动速度可能高达每小时六百英里 Some layer between the third and last layers of an atom contain as many as 32 electrons 原子内三层和最外层之间的一些电子层，含有多达32个电子 倍数的比较 常用句型结构为： A is N times as large (long, heavy, etc.) as B A is N-1 times as large (longer, heavier, etc.) as B A is larger (longer, heavier, etc.) than B by N-1 times 上述三种句型，表达的概念完全一样，可译为：A的大小（长度，重量……）是B的N倍，或A比B大（长，重……）N-1倍。 Mercury weighs more than water by about 14 times 水银比水重约14倍 This substance reacts three times as fast as the other one. 这一物质的反应速度比另一物质快两倍 The conve