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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
-- The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it.
-- I would not have it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong.
-- He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty abundance, rather than the style in which he lived.
-- Heaven only knows, not I!Let it suffice to say, Ichabod stole forth with the air of one who had been sacking a henroost, rather than a fair lady's heart.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
-- He made enemies rather than friends.
-- I tried to conceal my embarrassment by handing round cups of tea and rather ill-cut bread-and-butter.
-- She was a woman of thirty-seven, rather tall and plump, without being fat; she was not pretty, but her face was pleasing, chiefly, perhaps, on account of her kind brown eyes.
-- Her skin was rather sallow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was rather more than forty years of age.
-- "Stop here, my boy," said the sailor; "we have to prepare an encampment, and to try and find rather better grub than these shell-fish.
-- I would rather even have lost my pipe!Confound the box!
-- "I doubt it," replied the sailor, shaking his head, "for neither Neb nor Captain Harding smoke, and I believe that Mr. Spilett would rather keep his note-book than his match-box."
-- Herbert watched the work with great interest, though rather doubting its success.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kaa was not a poison snake in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
-- Like all snakes of his breed Kaa was rather deaf, and did not hear the call at first.
-- Shere Khan heard the thunder of their hoofs, picked himself up, and lumbered down the ravine, looking from side to side for some way of escape, but the walls of the ravine were straight and he had to hold on, heavy with his dinner and his drink, willing to do anything rather than fight.
-- 'I suppose it is rather awful from your way of looking at it, but if you seals will come here year after year, of course the men get to know of it, and unless you can find an island where no men ever come you will always be driven.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This beast, I rather conclude, friend, is not of home rais-ing, but is from foreign lands, or perhaps from the little island itself over the blue water?'
-- It could be seen, however, that her per-son, though molded with the same exquisite proportions, of which none of the graces were lost by the traveling dress she wore, was rather fuller and more mature than that of her companion.
-- Her complexion was not brown, but it rather appeared charged with the color of the rich blood, that seemed ready to burst its bounds.
-- Alice made no very powerful effort to control her merriment; and even the dark, thoughtful eye of Cora light-ed with a humor that it would seem, the habit, rather than the nature, of its mistress repressed.
-- Alice felt disposed to laugh, though she succeeded in suppressing her merriment, ere she answered: 'I apprehend that he is rather addicted to profane song.
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