Table 4 Degree of Intensity in FLOB and LCMC
From: DEGREE OF INTENSITY in English-Chinese translation: a corpus-based approach
Total | High | Low | Sum | Normalised frequencies (per 10,000) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FLOB | 878 (26.13%) | 2044 (60.83%) | 438 (13.04%) | 3360 (100%) | 33.6 |
Top items | too: 506 completely: 90 entirely: 82 extremely: 66 totally: 45 | very: 1081 almost: 394 quite: 250 nearly: 120 rather: 110 | slightly: 118 hardly: 109 a bit: 103 somewhat: 56 scarcely: 20 | ||
LCMC | 1455 (29.82%) | 2836 (58.11%) | 589 (12.07%) | 4880 (100%) | 48.8 |
Top items | 太tài: 342 十分shífēn: 319 极jí: 296 完全wánquán: 260 绝jué: 138 | 很hěn: 1726 大dà: 306 非常fēicháng: 219 几乎jīhū: 134 相当xiāngdāng: 126 | 些xiē: 194 稍shāo: 120 点diǎn: 114 还hái: 36 不太bú tài: 36 不大bú dà: 24 | ||
FLOB-G (178,764 words) | 114 (22.05%) | 344 (66.54%) | 59 (11.41) | 517 (100%) | 28.9 |
LCMC-G (129,746 words) | 222 (24.13%) | 592 (64.35%) | 106 (11.52%) | 920 (100%) | 70.9 |