compare是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 比较, 对照; 喻为，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wanted to compare them, and began taking them out of the album.
-- "But when I think about myself, and compare myself with others, especially with my brother, I feel I'm a poor creature."
-- At the moment when she had moved away to the big clock to compare it with her watch, someone drove up.
-- All of this together made a disagreeable impression on Katavasov, and when the volunteers got out at a station for a drink, Katavasov would have liked to compare his unfavorable impression in conversation with someone.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To compare her speed to four times that of a locomotive going on full steam would be below the truth.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is one large hotel to compare with the dozen in Zenith, but that one is as busy and standardized and frenziedly modern as its owner can make it.
-- Sometimes the papers, and I can only say they flatter me when they compare me with Billy Sunday, the greatest of all evangelists and Christian preachers--sometimes they claim that I'm too sensational.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not enough admire the change he had wrought in theGolden Cross; or compare the dull forlorn state I had heldyesterday, with this morning's comfort and this morning'sentertainment.
-- But what I particularly observed, before I hadbeen half an hour in the house, was the close and attentive watchMiss Dartle kept upon me; and the lurking manner in which sheseemed to compare my face with Steerforth's, and Steerforth's withmine, and to lie in wait for something to come out between thetwo.
-- 'Oh, you cruel fellow, to compare youraffectionate wife to a transported page!Why didn't you tell meyour opinion of me before we were married?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Knightley's air is so remarkably good that it is not fair to compare Mr. Martin with him.
-- Compare Mr. Martin with either of them.
-- Compare their manner of carrying themselves; of walking; of speak-ing; of being silent.
-- 'I do not think he is conceited either, in general,' said Harriet, her conscience opposing such censure; 'at least, he is very good natured, and I shall always feel much obliged to him, and have a great regard for but that is quite a dif-ferent thing from and you know, though he may like me, it does not follow that I should and certainly I must con-fess that since my visiting here I have seen people and if one comes to compare them, person and manners, there is no comparison at all, one is so very handsome and agree-able.
-- 'He appears rough to you,' said Emma, 'because you are so very gentle yourself; but if you could compare him with other papas, you would not think him rough.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He ain't trash!Do you mean to compare him with real white trash like the Slatterys?
-- Melanieevidently found nothing lacking in her husband's messages but Melanie had had no other man's love letters with whichto compare Ashley's" "He writes such crazy letters," Scarlett thought "If ever any husband of mine wrote me such twaddle-twaddle,he'd certainly hear from me!Why, even Charlie wrote better letters than these."
-- "Just compare me with those rag-tags over there and you'll appreciate me more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In our already-mentioned freemasonry as fellow-sufferers, and in his good-natured companionship with me, it was our evening habit to compare the way we bit through our slices, by silently holding them up to each other's admiration now and then,--which stimulated us to new exertions.
-- "Mr. and Mrs. Hubble might like to see you in your new gen-teel figure too, Pip," said Joe, industriously cutting his bread, with his cheese on it, in the palm of his left hand, and glancing at my untasted supper as if he thought of the time when we used to compare slices.
-- But I can compare the effect of it, when on, to nothing but the probable effect of rouge upon the dead; so awful was the manner in which everything in him that it was most desirable to repress, started through that thin layer of pretence, and seemed to come blazing out at the crown of his head.
-- Why should I loiter on my road, to compare the state of mind in which I had tried to rid myself of the stain of the prison before meeting her at the coach-office, with the state of mind in which I now reflected on the abyss between Estella in her pride and beauty, and the returned transport whom I harbored?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must confess no object ever disgusted me so much as the sight of her mon-strous breast, which I cannot tell what to compare with, so as to give the curious reader an idea of its bulk, shape, and colour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not but compare it to some familiar spirit, guiding us through the earth, and I dabbled my fingers in its tepid water, which sang like a naiad as we progressed.
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