rather是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 相当， 有一点儿； 宁愿， 宁可，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Many can't go there; and many would rather die.'
-- 'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
-- That, and its livid colour, made it horrible; but its horror seemed to be in spite of the face and beyond its con-trol, rather than a part or its own expression.
-- 'I I think I'd rather not,' said Scrooge.
-- Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and admin-istered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of something to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted be-fore, he had rather not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mildewy inside of the coach, with its damp and dirty straw, its disageeable smell, and its obscurity, was rather like a larger dog-kennel.
-- Mr. Lorry, the passenger, shaking himself out of it in chains of straw, a tangle of shaggy wrapper, flapping hat, and mud-dy legs, was rather like a larger sort of dog.
-- Through the rusted bars, tastes, rather than glimpses, were caught of the jumbled neigh-bourhood; and nothing within range, nearer or lower than the summits of the two great towers of Notre-Dame, had any promise on it of healthy life or wholesome aspirations.
-- Both Mr. Lorry and Defarge were rather disinclined to this course, and in favour of one of them remaining.
-- Thus, Tellson's, in its day, like greater places of busi-ness, its contemporaries, had taken so many lives, that, if the heads laid low before it had been ranged on Temple Bar instead of being privately disposed of, they would probably have excluded what little light the ground floor had, in a rather significant manner.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should like to know how the weavers are getting on with my cloth,' said the Emperor to himself, after some lit-tle time had elapsed; he was, however, rather embarrassed, when he remembered that a simpleton, or one unfit for his office, would be unable to see the manufacture.
-- It was certainly rather cool of him to say to the Emperor's daughter, 'Will you have me?'
-- The moon was not yet very high; it was besides rather foggy, so that in the darkness all objects seemed mingled in chaotic confusion.
-- In reality, such remembrances are rather unpleasant: every sin, every evil thought, may, like a clock with alarm or chimes, be repeated at pleasure; then the question is if we can trust ourselves to give an account of every unbecoming word in our heart and on our lips.
-- We will, therefore, not listen to what was spoken, and on no condition run in the possibility of telling tales out of school; but we will rather proceed, like good quiet citizens, to East Street, and observe what happened meanwhile to the body of the watchman.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then a good-humored and rather pitiful smile showed itself on his handsome face.
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
-- Levin arrived in Moscow always excited and in a hurry, rather ill at ease and irritated by his own want of ease, and for the most part with a perfectly new, unexpected view of things.
-- One would have thought that nothing could be simpler than for him, a man of good family, rather rich than poor, and thirty-two years old, to make the young Princess Shtcherbatskaya an offer of marriage; in all likelihood he would at once have been looked upon as a good match.
-- "Well, if that's its aim, I'd rather be a savage."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared to be a man about forty years of age, with fine, handsome features, and a tall, well-shaped figure; his hair and whiskers were light, his forehead compact and unwrinkled, his face rather pale, his teeth magnificent.
-- His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.
-- "A man rather feels the presence of these fellows, consul, than recognises them.
-- The consul took the document and carefully read it, whilst Fix observed, or rather devoured, the stranger with his eyes from a corner of the room.
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