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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I would rather preserve the whole if I could."
-- He was tall in person, and had rather stern features; but there was an exceeding sweetness in his look, and a stamp of Highland poetry about his whole bearing.
-- As for young Robert, he would have smuggled himself in somewhere in the hold of the DUNCAN rather than be left behind.
-- It is thirty-six hours since I have had anything to eat, or rather thirty-six hours that I have been asleep—pardonable enough in a man who came all the way, without stopping, from Paris to Glasgow.
-- "Take my advice, then, and yield to chance, or rather providence.
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 was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.
-- Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' says he, 'I'll bring some;' and accordingly he brought a great leather pouch, which held a pound and a half of powder, or rather more; and another with shot, that had five or six pounds, with some bullets, and put all into the boat.
-- While I was in view of the Moor that was swimming, I stood out directly to sea with the boat, rather stretching to windward, that they might think me gone towards the Straits' mouth (as indeed any one that had been in their wits must have been supposed to do): for who would have supposed we were sailed on to the southward, to the truly Barbarian coast, where whole nations of negroes were sure to surround us with their canoes and destroy us; where we could not go on shore but we should be devoured by savage beasts, or more merciless savages of human kind.
-- My stock was but low, as well as his; and we rather planted for food than anything else, for about two years.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties.
-- "That is very true, and, therefore, I do not know whether, upon the whole, it would not be more advisable to do something for their mother while she lives, rather than for them something of the annuity kind I mean. My sisters would feel the good effects of it as well as herself.
-- He so frequently talked of the increasing expenses of housekeeping, and of the perpetual demands upon his purse, which a man of any consequence in the world was beyond calculation exposed to, that he seemed rather to stand in need of more money himself than to have any design of giving money away.
-- Mrs. Jennings, Lady Middleton's mother, was a good-humoured, merry, fat, elderly woman, who talked a great deal, seemed very happy, and rather vulgar.
-- She rather suspected it to be so, on the very first evening of their being together, from his listening so attentively while she sang to them; and when the visit was returned by the Middletons' dining at the cottage, the fact was ascertained by his listening to her again.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole suit was rather tight-fitting, and was finished off with heavy-soled tan shoes, highly polished, and the grey fedora hat.
-- "I'd rather you wouldn't.
-- I'd rather you wouldn't be with me when I meet my sister."
-- A lean-faced, rather commonplace woman recognised Carrie on the platform and hurried forward.
-- Polished brass or nickel signs at the square stone entrances announced the firm and the nature of the business in rather neat and reserved terms.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the speech I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king: To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio had eaten the three pears, or rather devoured them.
-- I'd rather die than drink that awful medicine."
-- "To tell you the truth," answered Pinocchio, "if I must choose, I should much rather go free so I may return home!"
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