more dumplinig and less soup这个结构让我想到一些与比较概念相关的现象,即more noun and less noun / more noun than noun,也许有一些共性。
例如:
So if you want the holidays to be more friend and less foe, be health conscious to be happy!
I have been more poet and less social philosopher than people generally seem to believe.
By that standard comics are more book than magazine.
I think that makes me more a poet than an actor, at heart.
It’s more of a guess than an estimate.
上述例子中有些可数名词以词干形式出现,可能有两点原因:
1. 突出对比或视为成对,可能类似我们常见的father and son、husband and wife等;
2. 突出事物的属性(quality),因此向不可数名词或形容词的用法偏移。
文章中说的是soup dumplings,即soup和dumpling构成了小笼包的一对重要特征,二者进行比较,dumpling的成分特征更多一些(more dumpling-like)。
可能有些异想天开,仅供参考。
