comparative是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 比较的, 相当的,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:
-- But John fancied he could see beyond the breakers a quiet basin, where the DUNCAN would be in comparative safety.
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:
-- He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa, and many a charming evening we have spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, although there's comparative peace at home at present, the storm will break if anything is finally settled tonight.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He explained to me that the comparative safety of Moreau and himself was due to the limited mental scope of these monsters.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But in spite of his habitually dissipated mode of life, his inferior grade in the service, and his comparative youth, he occupied the honorable and lucrative position of president of one of the government boards at Moscow.
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:
-- In another minute the whole party was collected in this spot of comparative safe-ty.
-- Without assuming the supererogatory task of enter-ing into a discussion of the comparative merits of national courtesy, Duncan cheerfully assented to supply the place of the veteran in the approaching interview.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such a woman as Jane Fairfax probably never fell in Mrs. Elton's way before and no degree of vanity can prevent her acknowledging her own comparative littleness in action, if not in consciousness.'
-- It was not in his calmness that she read his comparative difference.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was wooed, but would marry no one, feeling that life with any one of her wooers would be hard, spoiled, as she was, more or less, by the comparative ease she enjoyed in the manor.
-- And this walking around the table and his handshaking, although most of the people were comparative strangers to him, this evening seemed to Nekhludoff particularly unpleasant and ridiculous.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I fear, my friend, that I shall render myself tedious by dwelling on these preliminary circumstances; but they were days of comparative happiness, and I think of them with pleasure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By then making a loop of about a couple of miles into the open country at the back of Pumblechook's premises, I got round into the High Street again, a little beyond that pitfall, and felt myself in comparative security.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At length I left the spot, and once more returned to the shores of the lake, to light and comparative warmth.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig to break the fixed trance of whiteness.
-- The accursed shark alone can in any generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him.
-- But if from the comparative dimensions of the whale's proper brain, you deem it incapable of being adequately charted, then I have another idea for you.
-- For, viewed in this light, the wonderful comparative smallness of his brain proper is more than compensated by the wonderful comparative magnitude of his spinal cord.
-- As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains, accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the plain; even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward through the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'By all means,' cried Bingley; 'let us hear all the particu-lars, not forgetting their comparative height and size; for that will have more weight in the argument, Miss Bennet, than you may be aware of.
-- My watchfulness has been effectual; and though I certainly should be a more interesting object to all my acquaintances were I distractedly in love with him, I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the ladies withdrew to the drawing-room after dinner, this poverty was particularly evident, for the gentlemen HAD supplied the discourse with some variety the variety of politics, inclosing land, and breaking horses but then it was all over; and one subject only engaged the ladies till coffee came in, which was the comparative heights of Harry Dashwood, and Lady Middleton's second son William, who were nearly of the same age.
-- To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost every thing that could make it a blessing."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When she came to her own rooms, Carrie saw their comparative insignificance.
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