2015年2月16日月曜日

A is to B what C is to D 構文


A is to B what C is to D = A is to B as C is to D をおぼえておくと便利です。what, as の部分が like になることもあります。1320 Zhang Lang is to restaurants what Zhang Xin is to property.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSmdZLaC0T8  7;24 Julius Schmid brought mass production and uniformity to the American condom industry. he was to condom what Henry Ford was to cars, what Bill Gates was to software, what Oscar Mayer was to wieners.

2:55 ventilators are to this war, what missiles were to World War II. コロナ戦争の人工呼吸器の役割は、第二次世界大戦時のミサイルと同じ役割だ。

US coronavirus cases soar past 16,000 with at least 200 dead

参考リンク
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyuIAUlL5IU  1:38 snakes to the mongoose are like peanuts to the squirrel. ヘビとマングースの関係は落花生とリスの関係に似ている。注;A is to B what C is to D 構文と A to B is like C to D 構文は基本的には同じ。

練習問題解答
a-1726 egg is to the food industry, what crude oil is to transportation
a-4539 this lab is to genetics, what the printing press was to written word
a-7959 US dollars are to businesses, what toilet paper is to households
b-5499 the pawpaw is to Athens what ? what air and water is to us as humans