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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She put her hand in mine as confidingly as if she had known me from her cradle, and we trudged away together; the little creature accommodating her pace to mine, and rather seeming to lead and take care of me than I to be protecting her.
-- 'Why, then, I do consider myself rather so, master,' was the answer.
-- Discovering his mistake after a while, he appeared to grow rather sleepy and discontented, and had more than once suggested the propriety of an immediate departure, when the door opened, and the child herself appeared.
-- 'Say rather that he should not be,' replied the old man.
-- This inquiry involved the respected lady in rather a delicate position, for she certainly had been an active party in making her daughter Mrs Quilp, and, besides, it was not supporting the family credit to encourage the idea that she had married a man whom nobody else would have.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Conscious of the attention that was shown her, without turning her head she looked askance at the onlookers and rather enjoyed it.
-- When he was chaste, and wished to preserve his chastity till marriage, his relatives were anxious about his health, and his mother, so far from being mortified, rather rejoiced when she learned that he had become a real man, and had enticed the French mistress of some friend of his.
-- As to the statement of the defense that Maslova was drawn into a vicious life by an imaginary (he pronounced the word imaginary with particular virulence) man, he could say that all facts rather pointed to her being the seducer of many victims who were unfortunate enough to fall into her hands.
-- "I am rather tired, but, if it won't take long, I will listen to your case.
-- "Don't correct yourself, but rather say that we are so bad," said Katherine Alexeievna, playing with the words, and pretending not to see Nekhludoff's gravity.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere, when thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision.
-- "Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?"
-- It's rather odd.
-- "Our Special Correspondent in the Day after Tomorrow reports," the Journalist was saying or rather shouting when the Time Traveller came back.
-- The mouths were small, with bright red, rather thin lips, and the little chins ran to a point.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or let me see suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once!Well, I shouldn't mind that much!I'd far rather go without them than eat them!
-- 'It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's rather hard to understand!'
-- She was getting a little giddy with so much floating in the air, and was rather glad to find herself walking again in the natural way.
-- Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself.
-- 'It's my opinion that you never think at all,' the Rose said in a rather severe tone.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet country life, and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
-- He spoke to him as before, over his shoulder and in the same tone of voice, rather high, so that all the room might hear, but perfectly calm and steady: "If you do not put that knife this instant in your pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at the next assizes."
-- I was very uneasy and alarmed, as you may fancy, and it rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself.
-- He was growing more and more excited, and this alarmed me for my father, who was very low that day and needed quiet; besides, I was reassured by the doctor's words, now quoted to me, and rather offended by the offer of a bribe.
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