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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the folds of his cloak, together with his manner of disregarding his companion and addressing the opposite wall instead, seemed to intimate that he was rehearsing for the President, whose examination he was shortly to undergo, rather than troubling himself merely to enlighten so small a person as John Baptist Cavalletto.
-- 'Rather forcible in our fair friend, you'll agree with me, I think?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Margaret, the eldest of the four, was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather vain.
-- 'I do think THE WITCH-ES CURSE, an Operatic Tragedy is rather a nice thing, but I'd like to try McBETH, if we only had a trapdoor for Ban-quo.
-- If I wasn't too old for such things, I'd rather like to play it over again,' said Amy, who began to talk of renouncing childish things at the mature age of twelve.
-- I rather think she hasn't got any,' said her mother.
-- Amy came in hastily, and looked rather abashed when she saw her sisters all waiting for her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.
-- Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here?
-- Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods!go down to the fiery pit itself, in order to keep out this frost?
-- I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket.
-- In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
-- There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
-- Not having a very clearly defined notion of what a live board was, Oliver was rather astounded by this intelligence, and was not quite certain whether he ought to laugh or cry.
-- At the top of the table, seated in an arm -chair rather higher than the rest, was a particularly fat gentleman with a very round, red face.
-- It was rather expensive at first, in consequence of the increase in the undertaker's bill, and the necessity of taking in the clothes of all the paupers, which fluttered loosely on their wasted, shrunken forms, after a week or two's gruel.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had rather hoped that his wife's views on the stranger would be disappointed; but he soon found out that he had a different story to hear.
-- They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first pri-vate seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.
-- To be sure that DID seem as if he admired her indeed I rather believe he DID I heard something about it but I hardly know what something about Mr. Robin-son.'
-- 'You are a very strange creature by way of a friend! al-ways wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody!If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hear-ing the very best performers.'
-- 'I had much rather go in the coach.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must acknowledge I had hardly eyes to look up when the seamen told me she was sinking; for from the moment that they rather put me into the boat than that I might be said to go in, my heart was, as it were, dead within me, partly with fright, partly with horror of mind, and the thoughts of what was yet before me.
-- The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the Af-rican shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.
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