状语修饰副词和形容词

1. 一些副词常作状语修饰副词和形容词
常见的有：very, extremely, pretty, badly, any, much, dead, damn, real, fucking

If you develop AIDS, your chances of survival are very small. 如果你得了艾滋病，生存机率就会很小。
They travel very fast and they use less energy. 它们行进速度快而且消耗较少的能量。
This is a pretty simple concept. 这是一个极其简单的概念。
My six-year-old can read English pretty well. 我的六见小孩已能很好地进行英语阅读。
Everything's gone badly wrong! 一切都糟透了！
You are dead right! 你完全正确！

2. 一些短语也常作状语修饰副词和形容词
如: a bit more, a great deal, more or less, so much 等。

Jupiter is a great deal larger in size. 木星的体积要大得多。
She's feeling so much better today. 她今天身体好多了。

3. 一些副词可以在a, the 前面
She's quite a common kind of girl with dirty nails. 她是很普通的一个年轻姑娘,手指甲脏兮兮的。
It seems rather a good idea. 这似乎是个相当不错的主意。
You haven't changed at all -- you still look exactly the same. 你根本没有改变－－你看上去仍完成一样。

4. this 和 that 也可以作副词修饰形容词和副词
我们对这两个词很熟悉。但由于这两个词在很多情况下都是作代词，尤其是that这个词有很多种用法，所以当这两个词用作副词修饰形容词时，比较考验读者的语感。下面举出this和that修饰形容词和副词的例子。更多that的用法可以参见《that的用法》一文。

I would have walked out, I was that angry. 我本应该走出去，我当时是那么的生气。
Do I look that stupid? 我看起来有那么傻吗？
It's dangerous to drive that fast. 车开得那么快是很危险的。
I didn't think we'd get this far. 我没想到我们会走这么远。