2012年6月30日星期六

【权威参考】no less than和not less than的区别

no less than

等于(你期望较少)

例句

Over the last 40 years, it has produced no less than 57 international hockey players, including the stars Tahir Zaman, Rashid-ul-Hassan and Shahbaz Jr. ——BBC,http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/17401708

佐证

句酷 http://www.jukuu.com/search.php?q=no%20less%20than

not less than

不小于,大于等于

例句

The term `serial killings' means a series of three or more killings, not less than one of which was committed within the United States
——美利坚合众国联邦法案《保护儿童免受性侵害法案》(PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL PREDATORS)http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-105publ314/html/PLAW-105publ314.htm,来自国会图书馆。

佐证

 !< (Not Less Than) (Transact-SQL): Compares two expressions (a comparison operator). When you compare nonnull expressions, the result is TRUE if the left operand does not have a value lower than the right operand; otherwise, the result is FALSE.
——微软Transact-SQL文档,英文http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189808.aspx,或中文http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/ms189808.aspx

参考

http://www.englishforums.com/English/NoLessThanNotLessThan/cjdng/post.htm

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