Cook rolled out the pastry till it was as thin as a wafer.

Under the combined criterion of semantics and syntax, nouns in English fall into four categories, with one group of count nouns and three groups of mass nouns.

文章进一步讨论了可数分类词与不可数分类词的区别及划分标准，并尝试对可数分类词下定义，借此把汉语中的可数名词与不可数名词区分开来。

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The word is an uncountable noun and is used in a general sense, hence ( therefore) it takes no article.

这个词是不可数名词，又用于一般意义，所以不要加冠词。

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Used before an uncountable noun ( abstract, material, proper) to refer to a countable meaning of noun.

用在不可数名词（抽象、物质、专有）前，使该名词作为可数名词的用法。但当不可数名词前有表示数量的复数名词时，谓语动词用复数形式。

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Some nouns can be both countable and uncountable. Uncountable nouns even can be countable or in plural form.

有些名词既可以用作可数名词也可以用作不可数名词，甚至一些不可数名词也可以用作可数名词或以复数形式出现。

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Most uncountable nouns are only used in the singular.

大多数的不可数名词只有单数的形式。

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An uncountable noun is marked [ U] in this dictionary.

不可数名词在本词典中以[U]标明。

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The uncountable noun, probably a shortening of" hyperbole", comes out of the world of advertising but is now widely used in political as well as business contexts.

这个不可数名词可能是hyperbole（夸张）一词的略写，来源于广告界，但现在广泛用于政界与商企界。

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Less is used when comparing quantities that can't be counted; for example, "I'd like less milk." If you're comparing quantities ( like bagels, for example) then "fewer" should be used.

“Less”用于形容不可数名词，如“我想喝一点牛奶。”如果形容可数名词，如百吉饼之类，这时，那就应该用“fewer”。

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Note that'vocabulary'is a non-count noun, so we don't say vocabularies.

不过要注意'vocabulary'是不可数名词，所以我们不能说vocabularies。

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Firstly, different from other universal quantifier such as all/ suo you, both every and mei cannot be followed by arguments such as mass noun or bare plural nouns directly.

首先，every和每不同于其它全称量词如all/所有，后面不能直接接论元如不可数名词或光杆复数名词。

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Please decide whether the following nouns are CNs or UNs.

判断下列词是可数名词（CN）还是不可数名词（UN）。

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Great can be used with uncountable nouns It was vague, intangible, appealing only to some strange, nameless sixth sense.

great可与不可数名词连用这桩事是虚无缥缈、不可捉摸的，只有通过什么不可思议，难以名状的第六感觉才会领会。

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Great quantities of fish are caught on high seas.

本句的意思是“公海内捕获大量的鱼。”当quantities+可数或不可数名词作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式，只是在quantity of+不可数名词作主语时，谓语动词用单数。

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Great can be used with uncountable nouns

great可与不可数名词连用

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Note than in the first example above notice is an uncountable noun so it cannot take a/ an.

第一种表达中，notice是不可数名词，所以前面不需要加a/an。

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As a noun,'travel'refers to the activity in general and is generally used as an uncountable noun.

travel做名词的时候指的是旅行这种行为本身，通常用作不可数名词。

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Shell up the cable join-box , fasten the cable on the top of line through.

剥去电缆套, 将电缆固定在线槽顶部.

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Just draw a line through Orion's Belt, and extend line toward the horizon.

就画一条直线将其联起来.再延伸到眼球.

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The melody of the piano develops from line, through intervals, to the tone cluster.

钢琴的旋律, 由单线条到双音, 再转化为[音丛].

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Trans-related highway township, the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan passenger line through the territory.

平涉公路横贯全乡, 石太客运专线在境内穿过.

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