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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I would rather you let that alone,' said the man, 'for I do not willingly give myself up to be eaten; if you are wanting food I have enough to satisfy your hunger.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I offered to lie down that he might the more conveniently reach my ear, but he chose rather to let me hold him in my hand during our conversation.
-- For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are in much doubt, and would rather con-jecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars; because it is certain, that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short time destroy all the fruits and cattle of his majesty's dominions: besides, our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu.
-- It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
-- Yet, as to myself, I must con-fess, having never been designed for a courtier, either by my birth or education, I was so ill a judge of things, that I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence, but conceived it (perhaps erroneously) rather to be rigorous than gentle.
-- I told him, 'that since fortune, whether good or evil, had thrown a vessel in my way, I was resolved to venture myself on the ocean, rather than be an occasion of difference between two such mighty monarchs.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You must paper it,' said the gentleman, rather warmly.
-- Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild.
-- said Mr. Childers, thrusting his young friend from the room, rather in the prairie manner.
-- said Mr. Gradgrind, rather resentfully, as having been defrauded of his good opinion.
-- The better class of minds, however, did not need to be informed that the Powlers were an ancient stock, who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it was not surprising if they sometimes lost themselves which they had rather frequently done, as respected horse-flesh, blind-hookey, Hebrew monetary transactions, and the Insolvent Debtors' Court.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The letters at all events," I said, "are rather difficult of comprehension."
-- "As Shakespeare says, 'that is the question,"' was my rather satirical reply.
-- Though he was rather severe with me, I loved him, and my heart ached at his sufferings.
-- I would starve rather than yield.
-- During the repast my uncle was rather gay than otherwise.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
-- They came to start housekeeping and married life in the rather forlorn home of the Chatterleys on a rather inadequate income.
-- Her mother had been one of the cultivated Fabians in the palmy, rather pre-Raphaelite days.
-- Rather she could use this sex thing to have power over him.
-- And afterwards looked rather as if they had lost a shilling and found sixpence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his eyes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright pointed weapons with little surface to betray them.
-- A sunburnt, quick, lithe, little man, though rather thickset.
-- he asked, with a dry hot pallor upon him, rather difficult of association with merriment.
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