worse是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 更坏, 更差(的/地),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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But Scrooge was all the worse for this.
-- Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like these.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burn-ing people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of six-pence.
-- It would be worse than useless now to inquire which; worse than useless to seek to know wheth-er he has been for years overlooked, or always designedly held prisoner.
-- It would be worse than useless now to make 35any inquiries, because it would be dangerous.
-- Worse quarters than Defarge's wine-shop, could easily have been found in Paris for a provincial slave of that de-gree.
-- He was not long in discovering that it was worse than useless to speak to him, since, on being pressed, he became worried.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Superbe!Charmant!exclaimed the ladies; for they all used to chatter French, each one worse than her neighbor.
-- while he was standing in his pillory: there would be a mob, a hissing, and rejoicing, and jeering, ten times worse than in the rows about the Jews some years ago 'Oh, my blood is mounting to my brain; 'tis enough to drive one mad!I shall go wild!I know not what to do.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides this, she realized that if even here in her own house she could hardly manage to look after her five children properly, they would be still worse off where she was going with them all.
-- It would have struck him as absurd if he had been told that he would not get a position with the salary he required, especially as he expected nothing out of the way; he only wanted what the men of his own age and standing did get, and he was no worse qualified for performing duties of the kind than any other man.
-- "Yes, I can see that his position is awful; it's worse for the guilty than the innocent," she said, "if he feels that all the misery comes from his fault.
-- No doubt they talked of me together, or, worse still, they were silent.
-- "So much the worse for those who keep up the fashion.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "So much the worse for the sun, monsieur.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He did not turn his back; he was worse than rude--he looked patient.
-- "It's no worse than the cuss-words you're always using!But the cornet yowling by that awful oldest daughter-- Ugh!"
-- "He speaks no meaner of the ridiculous faith-healers and chiropractors than he does of the doctors that want to snatch our science before it is tested and rush around hoping they heal people, and spoiling all the clues with their footsteps; and worse than the men like hogs, worse than the imbeciles who have not even heard of science, he hates pseudo-scientists, guess-scientists-- like these psycho-analysts; and worse than those comic dream- scientists he hates the men that are allowed in a clean kingdom like biology but know only one text-book and how to lecture to nincompoops all so popular!He is the only real revolutionary, the authentic scientist, because he alone knows how liddle he knows.
-- Among these jests Martin had never beheld one so pungent as this whereby the pretentiousness and fussy unimaginativeness which he had detested in Tubbs should have made him a good manager, while the genius of Gottlieb should have made him a feeble tyrant; the jest that the one thing worse than a too managed and standardized institution should be one that was not managed and standardized at all.
-- To have the existence of the plague admitted in the first place, he had had to fight the merchants controlling the House of Assembly, who had howled that a quarantine would ruin them, and who now refused to give him complete power and tried to manage the epidemic with a Board of Health, which was somewhat worse than navigating a ship during a typhoon by means of a committee.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And let me tell you, Dounia, Sonia's life is no worse than life with Mr. Luzhin.
-- He was only dimly conscious of himself now, and the farther he went the worse it was.
-- And when he had sunk down on the American leather sofa, which was in even worse condition than his own, Ra-zumihin saw at once that his visitor was ill. 'Why, you are seriously ill, do you know that?'
-- 'So much the worse 芒聙娄' 'Go to hell!'
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