比较 A100-109

与 ... 相比

• compared with / in comparison to
• In comparison to old-school death metal and thrash metal, the new-wave of Scandinavia Metal shows isself more of a mixture of typical metal energy, Scandinavia folk melodies and complex arrangement as usually experienced in classical music.
  
• as against
• Only 40% of the women, as against 60% of men, preferred to retire at the pensionable age.
• Interestingly, the application form for seeking a new domestic sewerage connection was being sold at Rs 250 as against the existing rate of Rs 10.

比得上

• can match/equal/approach
• Few artists could approach John Coltrane in contributing to the reformation of techniques of saxophone performance.
• Bhatia foresees a time when a desktop computer could approach supercomputer speed if properly configured for a particular application.
• nothing is more .... than; no ... is more ... than; few thing are more than
  
• As the only thing occurs to my mind, nothing can be more important than to have you here with me to spend our quality time together.
• Few tricks can give a song more memorable moments than a well-designed hook.
• many critics and listeners dismissed the music as nothing more than disposible fluff.
• Nothing can be more convincing and satisfactory than all the conclusions concerning
  the properties of circles and triangles;
• no ***er ... than
• There is no worse method of programming than by scripting without extracting modules.
• nothing is as ... as
• To most people, nothing else in a song is as striking as its realisic lyrics that appear to be telling their own stories.
• nowhere is more ... than in
• Nowhere is this alternative meaning of singing better illustrated than in the fad of Karaoke in Asian area.
• not as/so much as
• Comedy records haven't so much evolved as waxed and waned in popularity.

从未像...一样

• not ... anywhere near as ... as ...
  
• Indie music scene has never been anywhere near as miscellaneous as it is today.
• cannot do/think-of better than
• I can think of no better illustration of what drum N'bass is than the examples of all LTJ Bukem's works you can find back in the late 90's.

与...相比微不足道

• pale/tiny/nothing... compared with
  
• Those problems seem pale when compared to having an enormous number of uneducated people all over the country.
• be dwarfed by
• The figure is dwarfed by that of the Chinese bands who claimed their identities as rock n'roll.

相权衡

• be weighed against
• The most elementary form of moral reasoning is to weigh other's interests against one's own, which in turn requires sympathy and imagination.
  

最喜欢的莫过于

• like nothing better than to do
• Once I loved nothing better than to listening to music while riding a bicycle.