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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oh, Robert, comparison is the most dangerous figure in rhetoric that I know.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The company assembled at Nastasia Philipovna's con-sisted of none but her most intimate friends, and formed a very small party in comparison with her usual gatherings on this anniversary.
-- I stayed myself, just as I sometimes stop to look on in the street when I see something that may be regarded as-as-as-" 'As a curiosity,' suggested Evgenie Pavlovitch, seeing his excellency involved in a comparison which he could not complete.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His full rich voice was not found to suffer by a comparison with the soft tones of the girls; and his more modulated strains possessed, at least for the ears of those to whom they were peculiarly addressed, the additional power of intelligence.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My own hotel was modest enough, but it was magnificent in comparison with this.
-- It is possible that Strickland hated the normal release of sex because it seemed to him brutal by comparison with the satisfaction of artistic creation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was about eight o'clock; but the dead of the darkest night would have been as noon-day in comparison with the thick cloud which then rested upon the earth, and shrouded everything from view.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These stories, of which he seemed to possess an inexhaustible source, afforded the lawyer great pleasure, as showing most conclusively that the means employed by him as a lawyer to make money were perfectly innocent in comparison with those used by the more noted public men of St. Petersburg.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Alice didn't dare to argue the point, but went on: ' and I thought I'd try and find my way to the top of that hill ''When you say "hill,"' the Queen interrupted, 'I could show you hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison to that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three young-er sisters, and occasionally even by your father.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I did not so much as pray to be delivered from it or think of it; it was all of no consideration in comparison to this.
-- 'Well, then,' said I, 'if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To quit the neighbourhood of Norland was no longer an evil; it was an object of desire; it was a blessing, in comparison of the misery of continuing her daughter-in-law's guest; and to remove for ever from that beloved place would be less painful than to inhabit or visit it while such a woman was its mistress.
-- Mrs. John Dashwood saw the packages depart with a sigh: she could not help feeling it hard that as Mrs. Dashwood's income would be so trifling in comparison with their own, she should have any handsome article of furniture.
-- In comparison of Norland, it was poor and small indeed! but the tears which recollection called forth as they entered the house were soon dried away.
-- The friendliness of his disposition made him happy in accommodating those, whose situation might be considered, in comparison with the past, as unfortunate.
-- There was nothing in any of the party which could recommend them as companions to the Dashwoods; but the cold insipidity of Lady Middleton was so particularly repulsive, that in comparison of it the gravity of Colonel Brandon, and even the boisterous mirth of Sir John and his mother-in-law was interesting.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Constant comparison between his old state and his new showed a balance for the worse, which produced a constant state of gloom or, at least, depression.
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