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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TALKS RATHER MORE, PERHAPS, THAN IS PRUDENTFix soon rejoined Passepartout, who was lounging and looking about on the quay, as if he did not feel that he, at least, was obliged not to see anything.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a silent, sharp- faced, curly-headed, rather handsome young man, and he never squandered an hour or a good impulse.
-- It was a noisy and rather painful performance, which included smelling asafetida.
-- Chapter 3 John A. Robertshaw, John Aldington Robertshaw, professor of physiology in the medical school, was rather deaf, and he was the only teacher in the University of Winnemac who still wore mutton- chop whiskers.
-- Rather look at liver-sections," he grumbled, as he trudged up the curving stairs.
-- Of course my work--I'm taking my Doctor of Philosophy degree in English--" She made it sound as though she were taking her earldom--"it's rather dry and detached.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, ir-relevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to pre-varicate, to lie no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
-- The young man must have looked at her with a rather peculiar expression, for a gleam of mistrust came into her eyes again.
-- Their departure left the room quiet and rather empty.
-- The door leading to the other rooms, or rather cupboards, into which Amalia Lippevechsel's flat was divided stood half open, and there was shouting, uproar and laughter within.
-- She was a rather tall, slim and graceful woman, terribly emaci-ated, with magnificent dark brown hair and with a hectic flush in her cheeks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was tired of reading, anddead sleepy; but having leave, as a high treat, to sit up until mymother came home from spending the evening at a neighbour's, Iwould rather have died upon my post (of course) than have goneto bed.
-- We were sitting as before, one evening (when my mother was outas before), in company with the stocking and the yard measure,and the bit of wax, and the box with Saint Paul's on the lid, and thecrocodile book, when Peggotty, after looking at me several times,and opening her mouth as if she were going to speak, withoutdoing it- which I thought was merely gaping, or I should havebeen rather alarmed- said coaxingly'Master Davy, how should youlike to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's atYarmouth?
-- It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as Icarried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river;and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as roundas my geography-book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
-- Mrs.Gummidge's was rather a fretful disposition, and she whimperedmore sometimes than was comfortable for other parties in so smallan establishment.
-- Going down next morning rather earlier than usual, I pausedoutside the parlour-door, on hearing my mother's voice.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the pow-4 Emmaer of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvan-tages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.
-- A worthy employment for a young lady's mind!But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Tay-lor if Mr. Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success?
-- Captain Weston, who had been considered, especially by the Churchills, as making such an amazing match, was proved to have much the worst of the bargain; for when his wife died, after a three years' marriage, he was rather a poorer man than at first, and with a child to maintain.
-- Mr. Perry was an intelligent, gentlemanlike man, whose frequent visits were one of the comforts of Mr. Woodhouse's life; and upon being applied to, he could not but acknowledge (though it seemed rather against the bias of inclination) that wedding-cake might certainly disagree with many perhaps with most people, unless taken mod-erately.
-- He loved to have the cloth laid, because it had been the fashion of his youth, but his conviction of suppers being very unwholesome made him rather sorry to see any thing put on it; and while his hospitality would have welcomed his visitors to every thing, his care for their health made him grieve that they would eat.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
-- A rather hard couch, formed of a few corn sacks thrown carelessly down, covered half the floor of this little habitation, and here the young man stretched himself along, loosened his woollen cravat, and closed his eyes.
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