several hundred miles与several hundreds of miles的对错
2024-09-28 13:56:43 学考宝 作者：佚名
问题描述
He was out with the truck collecting supplies from a town ____ miles aways.
A. several hundred B. several hundreds of
C. five hundreds D. five hundred of
老师，这题答案是A， 我选择了B，为何B不正确呀？谢谢。
老师答疑
刘老师：
首先肯定，你的选择是正确的。
英语中，像hundred, thousand, million, billion这些数词，可用来表示“具体”的数字，也可以用来表示“大概”（不确切）的数字。例如：三百人：three hundred people；数百人：hundreds of people。
表示具体数目，之前加one (a), two, three, seven等具体数字：one (two, three, seven) hundred people，之后不带of。
若表示“大概”（不确切）的数字，数词本身用复数形式，后跟of，其前不能有具体的数字修饰，例如：
hundreds of workers
thousands of cows
tens of thousands of trees
但是，这些数词前被some, several, a few 等词修饰时，两种用法均可。可能是为了语句简练，这些不具体的数字当做具体数字用。
several thousand houses = several thousands of houses
a few hundred policemen = a few hundreds of policemen
some million trees = some millions of trees
several thousands of houses 的例句：
The oil well extended several hundreds of feet in depth. 油井向下延伸了数百英尺。
It has been one of China's best-loved novels for several hundreds of years. 这是中国几百年来最令人喜爱的小说之一。
Several hundreds of office workers in that company walked off their jobs in a wage dispute. 那家公司的几百名雇员因工资纠纷而进行罢工。
There are several hundreds of such places still discoverable in the track of the great war. 我们循着大战的痕迹，可以找到成百上千这样的地方。
