LANGUAGE POINTS

1.Hardly anyone can positively enjoy sitting in a train for more than a few hours.

此处hardly用来修饰主语anyone,所以句子并没有倒装。

Positively此处用来强调enjoy，看看例句中positively的不同意思

e.g. The waitress was positively rude to us. (positively用于强调rude. It means she was completely rude to us. )

e.g. He said quite positively that he would come.(positively=certainly, or definitely)

e.g. The teacher spoke positively about the work he had done. (positively=favorably)

2, ... but more often than not, the greater part of the journey is spent on roads with few service stations and too much traffic.

More often than not意为经常（very frequently）

e.g. More often than not she makes the same mistake.她常常犯同样的错误。

3，By comparison, ferry trips or cruises offer a great variety of civilized comforts.

By comparison意为相比之下，相形之下，等同于in comparison。

运用时，句中的修饰语用原级，通常不用比较级。

e.g. The old method suffers by comparison.老方法相形见拙。

在点明与之比较的事物时，一般用in comparison with,例如：

Your conclusion is wrong in comparison with their conclusion.你们的结论与他们的相比是错误的。新概念英语官方网