According to a 1996 study published in the Journal of Human Resources, Americans of Middle Eastern descent were twice as likely as was the national average to be self-employed.
as was the national average to be self-employed
as the average American to be self-employed
as the national average that they would be self-employed
to be self-employed than was the average American
that they would be self-employed than was the national average
"as ADJECTIVE as..." and "as ADVERB as..."第一个as是副词用于修饰形容词或者副词,第二个as是连词
are extremely common expressions to indicate equality in some measure (or inequality, if some multiple or percentage is in front of the construction). e.g.
choice a,'the national average' would be exactly what it says: an average.i.e., some kind of statistic. 全国平均值是一个数字,在这里构成比较的应该是人
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