Question

请教英语达人几个问题！帮帮忙吧

1. numerous misspellings appear in their papers, and what’s worse, a well-organized essay is cast into the shade.这句话中的cast into the shade该怎样解释啊。
2.For one thing, much more students give priorities to oral English at the cost of doing less spelling exercise, let alone reflect on what they learned the other day.这里的students 前面为什么还要加much？只用more不行吗？这句话该怎样翻译？

Answer 1

cast into the shade 黯然失色
这里more作形容词，修饰students，而much作副词（程度）修饰more。只用more是可以的。
可这样译
但是，更多的学生以少做拼写练习为代价，优先考虑做英语口语，更别提回顾先前学过的知识了。

Answer 2

cast into the shade 应该是“变得淡无光彩”的意思

much more是一种带有微略夸张的强调，只用more当然语法上没错，但是在这里用much more更有感情色彩