comparison是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 比较， 对比， 比喻， 比拟，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She discovered when she grew older that Gerald had stretched the truthsomewhat, as was his habit when a little stretching would improve a story; but Atlanta was only nine years older thanshe was, and that still left the place amazingly young by comparison with any other town she had ever heard of.
-- And Tara was only five miles from Jonesboro!Tara seemed like a haven of refuge by comparison with thescreaming hell of Atlanta, but Tara was only five miles from Jonesboro!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel.
-- But, all I had endured up to this time was nothing in comparison with the awful feelings that took possession of me when the pause was broken which ensued upon my sister's recital, and in which pause everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with indignation and abhorrence.
-- O that he had never come!That he had left me at the forge,--far from contented, yet, by comparison happy!
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
-- He added, 'that nature was degenerated in these latter declining ages of the world, and could now produce only small abortive births, in comparison of those in ancient times.'
-- For indeed, while I was in that prince's country, I could never endure to look in a glass, after mine eyes had been accustomed to such prodigious objects, because the comparison gave me so despicable a conceit of myself.
-- The captain understood my raillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English proverb, 'that he doubted mine eyes were bigger than my belly, for he did not observe my stomach so good, although I had fasted all day;' and, continuing in his mirth, protested 'he would have gladly given a hundred pounds, to have seen my closet 187in the eagle's bill, and afterwards in its fall from so great a height into the sea; which would certainly have been a most astonishing object, worthy to have the description of it transmitted to future ages:' and the comparison of Pha-eton was so obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much admire the conceit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he stood there, trying to quench his fiery face with his drink of water, the comparison between the orator and the crowd of attentive faces turned towards him, was extremely to his disadvantage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From hence I went to the house of the Governor--a mere hut in comparison with the Mansion House of Hamburg-but a palace alongside the other Icelandic houses.
-- Involuntarily, I compared this crater to an enormous loaded cannon; and the comparison completely terrified me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He fancied that although they had before them, every day, the means of comparison between her and one another and themselves, they regarded her as being in her necessary place; as holding a position towards them all which belonged to her, like her name or her age.
-- It is no proof of an inconstant mind, but exactly the opposite, when the idea will not bear close comparison with the reality, and the contrast is a fatal shock to it.
-- I am sure I am glad to hear it because as Arthur's mother it's naturally pleasant to my feelings to have a better opinion of her than I had before, though what she thinks of me when I run on as I am certain to do and she sits glowering at me like Fate in a go-cart shocking comparison really invalid and not her fault I never know or can imagine.'
-- So unspoilt, so simple, such a good soul!Upon my life Mr Clennam, one feels desperately worldly and wicked in comparison with such an innocent creature.
-- 'A knife and fork and an apartment,' proceeded Mr Sparkler, growing, in comparison with his oratorical antecedents, quite diffuse, 'will ever be at Amy's disposal.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chance comparison in this chapter, between the whale and the elephant, so far as some aspects of the tail of the one and the trunk of the other are concerned, should not tend to place those two opposite organs on an equality, much less the creatures to which they respectively belong.
-- **Though all comparison in the way of general bulk between the whale and the elephant is preposterous, inasmuch as in that particular the elephant stands in much the same respect to the whale that a dog does to the elephant; nevertheless, there are not wanting some points of curious similitude; among these is the spout.
-- Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch; in such a comparison an irresistible argument would seem furnished, to show that the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assure you, that if Darcy were not such a great tall fellow, in comparison with myself, I should not pay him half so much deference.
-- When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might al-most have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first con-vey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room.
-- The strangeness of Mr. Collins's making two offers of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now accepted.
-- He was beyond comparison the most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but, to coun-terbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.
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