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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I've been over a good part of the world since I left it, Dr. Watson,' said he; 'but I have never seen a place to compare with it.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Not one of them is worth your little finger, not one of them has heart or head to compare with yours!You are more honest than all, and better, no-bler, kinder, wiser than all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Marchioness is a Genie, and having had a wager with another Genie about who is the handsomest young man alive, and the worthiest to be the husband of the Princess of China, has brought me away, room and all, to compare us together.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There is nothing here to compare with his fine team of three bay horses.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't remember another that I can at all compare with it since I was capable of suffering.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could only compare it to the hot vapor from an iron foundry, when the liquid iron is in a state of ebullition and runs over.
-- I could only compare them with the noise made by hundreds of heavily laden chariots being madly driven over a stone pavement.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing for the spent toiler to do, but to compare the monotony of his seventh day with the monotony of his six days, think what a weary life he led, and make the best of it or the worst, according to the probabilities.
-- 'We happened last night to compare notes about our travels, and I had the information I have given you from Sparkler himself.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bhaer's face had lost the absent-minded expression, and looked all alive with inter-est in the present moment, actually young and handsome, she thought, forgetting to compare him with Laurie, as she usually did strange men, to their great detriment.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But being paid, what will compare with it?
-- I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin.
-- No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one I mean a downright bumpkin dandy a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
-- Those buckskin legs and calves of legs I've seen in shop windows wouldn't compare at all.
-- I can't compare with it; and I've known some ships made of dead trees outlast the lives of men made of the most vital stuff of vital fathers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let any one who doubts this, compare the two.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We may compare our differ-ent opinions.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But how just has it been - and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present condi-tions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felic-ity by their experience - I say, how just has it been, that the truly solitary life I reflected on, in an island of mere desola-tion, should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compared it with the life which I then led, in which, had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.
-- Another reflection was of great use to me, and doubtless would be so to any one that should fall into such distress as mine was; and this was, to compare my present condition with what I at first expected it would be; nay, with what it would certainly have been, if the good providence of God had not wonderfully ordered the ship to be cast up nearer to the shore, where I not only could come at her, but could bring what I got out of her to the shore, for my relief and comfort; without which, I had wanted for tools to work, weapons for defence, and gunpowder and shot for getting my food.
-- It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be al-ways comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complainings.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you compare your conduct with his?"
-- I compare it with what it ought to have been; I compare it with yours."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie felt that she needed more and better clothes to compare with this woman, and that any one looking at the two would pick Mrs. Vance for her raiment alone.
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