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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Scotia had not struck, but she had been struck, and seemingly by something rather sharp and penetrating than blunt.
-- This book, highly approved of in the learned world, gained for me a special reputation in this rather obscure branch of Natural History.
-- The reports of the Shannon and of the Helvetia had rather exaggerated its size, and I estimated its length at only two hundred and fifty feet.
-- Or rather was it a boat from the frigate, that was hailing us in the darkness?
-- Let us rather try to find out where we are."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe.
-- Her son was of a fair, sun-tanned type, rather above middle height, well-made, and almost exaggeratedly well-dressed.
-- And then Ursula noticed again the dark, rather stooping figure of Mr Crich, waiting suspended on the path, watching with expressionless face the flight to the church.
-- He looked rather comical, blinking and trying to be in the scene, when emotionally he was violated by his exposure to a crowd.
-- They waited, uneasy, suspended, rather bored.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is a darkskinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure; and rather morose.
-- She was slender, and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there.
-- Heathcliff s miled again, as if it were rather too bold a jest to attribute the paternity of that bear to him.
-- I don't know what would have concluded the scene, had there not been one person at hand rather more rational than myself, and more benevolent than my entertainer.
-- The roof has been kept whole hitherto; but as the clergyman's stipend is only twenty pounds per annum, and a house with two rooms, threatening speedily to determine into one, no clergyman will undertake the duties of pastor: especially as it is currently reported that his flock would rather let him starve than increase the living by one penny from their own pockets.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have said the captain was weak, and indeed he seemed rather to grow weaker than regain his strength.
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