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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the further motive that Baskerville Hall, as the paper says, would certainly remain untenanted if anything were done to increase its already rather grim reputation.
-- For both these reasons I thought that I was justified in telling rather less than I knew, since no practical good could result from it, but with you there is no reason why I should not be perfectly frank.
-- 'Well, it is rather obvious.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation.
-- He wore a large fur or rather astra-chan overcoat, which had kept him warm all night, while his neighbour had been obliged to bear the full severity of a Russian November night entirely unprepared.
-- 'Excuse me,' said the red-nosed man to the young fellow with the bundle, rather suddenly; 'whom have I the honour to be talking to?'
-- 'Don't flatter yourself, my boy,' said he; 'she's not for such as you; she's a princess, she is, and her name is Nastasia Philipovna Barashkoff, and she lives with Totski, who wishes to get rid of her because he's growing rather old fiftyfive or so and wants to marry a certain beauty, the loveliest woman in all Petersburg.'
-- And yet if these good people could only have had a peep into the mind of this excellent fellow who 'knew his place' so well!The fact is that, in spite of his knowledge of the world and his really remarkable abilities, he always liked to appear to be carrying out other people's ideas rather than his own.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You had rather go round and rob his prizes from any man who contradicts you.
-- Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this fellow here at Troy to stew in his own meeds of honour, and discover whether we were of any ser-vice to him or no.
-- 'Sir,' answered Helen, 'father of my husband, dear and reverend in my eyes, would that I had chosen death rather than to have come here with your son, far from my bridal chamber, my friends, my darling daughter, and all the com-panions of my girlhood.
-- No one would think he had just come from fighting, but rather that he was going to a dance, or had done dancing and was sitting down.'
-- 'So you are come from the fight,' said she; 'would that you had fallen rather by the hand of that brave man who was my husband.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She put down the eggs and bacon with considerable emphasis, and called rather than said to him, "Your lunch is served, sir."
-- "I'd rather glance through the volumes first," said Mr. Bunting, still wiping.
-- So Hall and Henfrey, rather crestfallen, tiptoed back to the bar, gesticulating to explain to her.
-- "You're rather liable to that sort of thing."
-- "I awoke vastly invigorated and rather irritable.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats.
-- I stood out against it with all my might, was rather for scuttling the boat and perishing to-gether among the sharks that followed us; but when Helmar said that if his proposal was accepted we should have drink, the sailor came round to him.
-- THE MAN WHO WAS GOING NOWHERE HE cabin in which I found myself was small and rather Tuntidy.
-- They were rather loose for me, for he was large and long in his limbs.
-- The captain went forward interfering rather than assisting.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He may be asleep now, and even were he awake what if he would rather kill his own goats?'
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