在所有這些表示“很多”的詞語(yǔ)中many, much 是最常用的詞,它們既可以用于肯定句,也可以用于疑問(wèn)句和否定句.例如:
Are there many people in the street?
街上有很多人嗎?
There isn’t much time left.
剩下的時(shí)間不多了.
其它的詞語(yǔ)都用于肯定句,日常會(huì)話中常用lots of, a lot of 或plenty of; 正式文體中常用 a great many, a (large) number of, a great deal of, scores of 或 dozens of 等.但若肯定句中有too, so, as, very或how 等詞修飾時(shí),則必須使用 many, much.例如:
The number of the people who lost their homes reached as many as 250,000.
無(wú)家可歸的人數(shù)多達(dá)250,000人.
There is too much work to do.
要做的工作太多了.