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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew he would be worse by and by.
-- May you live a thousand years, and never be a worse judge of the right sort than you are at the present moment of your life!"
-- Worth my while, too, to murder him, when I could do worse and drag him back!"
-- Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that if I did, he would think me worse than I was.
-- When these points were settled, and so far carried out as that I had begun to work in earnest, it occurred to me that if I could retain my bedroom in Barnard's Inn, my life would be agreeably varied, while my manners would be none the worse for Herbert's society.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here is one that is but little the worse for wear: I would not ask more than the value of your goose for it will you buy?'
-- 'Besides,' added the dog, 'I should not be the worse for a bone or two, or a bit of meat.'
-- The sparrow, seeing that the carter did not turn out of the way, but would go on in the track in which the dog lay, so as to drive over him, called out, 'Stop!stop!Mr Carter, or it shall be the worse for you.'
-- But the carter, grumbling to himself, 'You make it the worse for me, indeed!what can you do?'
-- 'What does that matter,' said the cat, 'it is no worse than Crumb-stealer, as your godchildren are called.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pretended to be worse than I really was, and desired leave to take the fresh air of the sea, with a page, whom I was very fond of, 176 Gulliver's Travelsand who had sometimes been trusted with me.
-- For he argued thus: 'that the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive in-formation of facts; now, if any one said the thing which was not, these ends were defeated, because I cannot properly be said to understand him; and I am so far from receiving in-formation, that he leaves me worse than in ignorance; for I am led to believe a thing black, when it is white, and short, when it is long.'
-- But when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might be worse than brutality itself.
-- He usually continues in office till a worse can be found; but the very moment he is discarded, his successor, at the head of all the Yahoos in that district, young and old, male and fe-male, come in a body, and discharge their excrements upon him from head to foot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Bounderby, 'when I was four or five years younger than you, I had worse bruises upon me than ten oils, twenty oils, forty oils, would have rubbed off.
-- 'From bad to worse, from worse to worsen.
-- He knew that there was trouble enough in the world; and if the old woman had lived so long, and could count upon his having so little, why so much the better for her, and none the worse for him.
-- He thought of the waste of the best part of his life, of the change it made in his character for the worse every day, of the dreadful nature of his existence, bound hand and foot, to a dead woman, and tormented by a demon in her shape.
-- That every man felt his condition to be, somehow or other, worse than it might be; that every man considered it incumbent on him to join the rest, towards the making of it better; that every man felt his only hope to be in his allying himself to the comrades by whom he was surrounded; and that in this belief, right or wrong (unhappily wrong then), the whole of that crowd were gravely, deeply, faithfully in earnest; must have been as plain to any one who chose to see what was there, as the bare beams of the roof and the whitened brick walls.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now, Harry," said my uncle, rubbing his hands, "an goes well, the worse difficulty is now over."
-- "How the worse difficulty over?"
-- If all the powder magazines in the world were to explode together, it would be impossible for us to hear worse noise.
-- About twelve o'clock the storm became worse than ever.
-- Not a pickax, not a crowbar, not a hammer, and, far worse t han all, no food--not enough for one day!
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