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[ENG] As-As Comparison (๋น„๊ต๊ธ‰)

๐ŸทSocialiteโœจ 2021. 5. 18. 13:31

As ~ as it may/might/can/could (be) ํ‘œํ˜„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ : ์ตœ๋Œ€์น˜ ๋น„๊ต

It(๊ทธ๊ฒƒ)์ด ~์˜ ์ƒํƒœ(ํ˜•์šฉ์‚ฌ)๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ, ํ˜„์žฌ vs. ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” (may be) ์ตœ๋Œ€์น˜ ๋น„๊ต

 

 

Example 1) I am as tall as you (are) (tall). ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋„ˆ(๊ฐ€) (ํ‚ค ํฐ)๋งŒํผ ํ‚ค ํฌ๋‹ค.

Example 2) Study as hard as you can (study). ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ (๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ) ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋งŒํผ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ / ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•ด๋ผ.

Example 3) Respond as soon as possible. ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋งŒํผ ์ผ์ฐ / ์‘๋‹ตํ•ด๋ผ.

 

Example 4) ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งŒํผ ๋ˆ„์ถ”ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ (=์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์—„์ฒญ ๋ˆ„์ถ”ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„), ์ง‘ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณณ์€ ์—†๋‹ค.

As humble as it may be, there is no place like home.
No matter how humble it may be,
However humble it may be,
Although it is ever so humble,
Let it be ever so humble,
Be it ever so humble,   (“The Wizard of Oz” ์ค‘ Dorothy ๋Œ€์‚ฌ)