better是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 较好的ad. 更好(地) v. 改良n. 较佳者，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：
-- Even the blind men's dogs ap-peared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!'
-- Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said 'Bah!'
-- 'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
-- The sort of man who knew his business better than you or I could have told it him.)
-- If he be like to die, he had better do it, and de-crease the surplus population.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He watched her as she mused, and the moment she raised her eyes again, went on: 'In your adopted country, I presume, I cannot do better than address you as a young English lady, Miss Manette?'
-- Better not to mention the subject, anywhere or in any way, and to remove him for a while at all events out of France.
-- The wine-shop was a corner shop, better than most oth-ers in its appearance and degree, and the master of the wine-shop had stood outside it, in a yellow waistcoat and green breeches, looking on at the struggle for the lost wine.
-- Better to begin slow-ly.'
-- 'That's business,' said Mr. Lorry, resuming on the short-est notice his methodical manners; 'and if business is to be done, I had better do it.'
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：
-- At the next corner hung a votive lamp before a Madonna, but the light it gave was little better than none at all; indeed, he did not observe it before he was ex-actly under it, and his eyes fell upon the bright colors of the pictures which represented the well-known group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus.
-- They looked at one another from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet; and when matters grew to too high a pitch, then the Bachelor talked Latin, in the hope of being better understood but it was of no use after all.
-- He thought of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised from the very bottom of his heart the happy reality our own time which, with all its deficiencies, is yet much better than that in which, so much against his inclination, he had lately been.
-- How gladly would he have sunk upon his knees; but he must away to the next heart; yet he still heard the peal-ing tones of the organ, and he himself seemed to have become a newer and a better man; he felt unworthy to tread the neighboring sanctuary which a poor garret, with a sick bed-rid mother, revealed.
-- 'True,' said the clerk, shrugging his shoulders; 'and yet you are the better off.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead of being hurt, denying, defending himself, begging forgiveness, instead of remaining indifferent even--anything would have been better than what he did do--his face utterly involuntarily (reflex spinal action, reflected Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was fond of physiology)--utterly involuntarily assumed its habitual, good-humored, and therefore idiotic smile.
-- All he repented of was that he had not succeeded better in hiding it from his wife.
-- Possibly he might have managed to conceal his sins better from his wife if he had anticipated that the knowledge of them would have had such an effect on her.
-- No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.
-- "As regards myself, I have no fear of your doing so; he will not make you quarrel with me; but for your own sake, I should say you would do better not to go.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else.
-- Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics, so as to make better use of my talents; and then I was a sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire.
-- An English criminal, you know, is always better concealed in London than anywhere else."
-- Aouda pathetically thanked her deliverers, rather with tears than words; her fine eyes interpreted her gratitude better than her lips.
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