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《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- interposed the Jew, goaded by these reproaches; 'a mischief worse than that, if you say much more!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Bingley met them with hopes that Mrs. Bennet had not found Miss Bennet worse than she expected.
-- She had ful-ly proposed being engaged by Mr. Wickham for those very dances; and to have Mr. Collins instead!her liveliness had never been worse timed.
-- 'His guilt and his descent appear by your account to be the same,' said Elizabeth angrily; 'for I have heard you ac-cuse him of nothing worse than of being the son of Mr. Darcy's steward, and of THAT, I can assure you, he in-formed me himself.'
-- 'To oblige you, I would try to believe almost anything, but no one else could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I persuaded that Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only think worse of her understanding than I now do of her heart.
-- Lady Catherine will not think the worse of you for being simply dressed.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
-- Now I began to construe the words mentioned above, 'Call on Me, and I will deliver thee,' in a different sense from what I had ever done before; for then I had no notion of any-thing being called DELIVERANCE, but my being delivered from the captivity I was in; for though I was indeed at large in the place, yet the island was certainly a prison to me, and that in the worse sense in the world.
-- I could not tell what part of the world this might be, oth-erwise than that I knew it must be part of America, and, as I concluded by all my observations, must be near the Span-ish dominions, and perhaps was all inhabited by savages, where, if I had landed, I had been in a worse condition than I was now; and therefore I acquiesced in the dispositions of Providence, which I began now to own and to believe ordered everything for the best; I say I quieted my mind with this, and left off afflicting myself with fruitless wishes of being there.
-- Sometimes it would take me in the middle of my work, and I would immediately sit down and sigh, and look upon the ground for an hour or two together; and this was still worse to me, for if I could burst out into tears, or vent myself by words, it would go off, and the grief, having exhausted itself, would abate.
-- But all this while I made no allowance for the dangers of such an undertaking, and how I might fall into the hands of savages, and perhaps such as I might have reason to think far worse than the lions and tigers of Africa: that if I once came in their power, I should run a hazard of more than a thousand to one of being killed, and perhaps of being eat-en; for I had heard that the people of the Caribbean coast were cannibals or man-eaters, and I knew by the latitude that I could not be far from that shore.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I wonder what it can be!May be his sister is worse at Avignon, and has sent for him over.
-- It grieved her to see the earnestness with which he often watched Marianne, and his spirits were certainly worse than when at Barton.
-- "His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both.
-- And there is one thing more preparing against him, which must be worse than all his mother has determined, with a very natural kind of spirit, to settle THAT estate upon Robert immediately, which might have been Edward's, on proper conditions.
-- I will not reason here nor will I stop for YOU to expatiate on the absurdity, and the worse than absurdity, of scrupling to engage my faith where my honour was already bound.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now it was all so tangled, so hopeless--much worse than it was before, because she had the semblance of aid in her hand which she could not use.
-- If it had not been for this, if she had not been able to measure and judge him in a way, she would have been worse off than she was.
-- "I didn't want to introduce you as my wife, because you'd feel worse then if you didn't GO.
-- She would have been led into a newer and worse situation.
-- Frequently he was the worse for liquor, which made him surly.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But that idea was a failure; for pretty soon it begun to storm again, and this time worse than ever.
-- Well, I warn't long loosing the whoops down amongst the towheads; and I only tried to chase them a little while, anyway, be- cause it was worse than chasing a Jack-o'-lantern.
-- So the duke said these Arkan-saw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned.
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