托福阅读考试长难句解析

Science is built with facts just as a house is built with bricks，but a collection of facts cannot be called science any more than a pile of bricks can be called a house.

(特殊结构 not any more than 像…一样不…)

科学建立在事实上，就像房子用砖砌成一样。但收集的事实不能被叫做科学，就像一堆砖不能被称为房子一样。

分句 1. Science is built with facts just as a house is built with bricks,

分句 2. but a collection of facts cannot be called science any more than a pile of bricks can be called a house.

1 和 2 是并列分句 (转折关系)