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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am better educated than you and I don't love you a bit: that's my side of the case.
-- This dog had originally belonged to a shepherd of inferior morals and dreadful temper, and the result was that George knew the exact degrees of condemnation signified by cursing and swearing of all descriptions better than the wickedest old man in the neighbourhood.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 莽卢卢27 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 "But M. le Comte had better wait a moment longer; madame is disengaged," said Maurice, as he returned to the ante-chamber.
-- When he reached the street door, the driver of a hackney coach, who had probably just deposited a wedding party at their door, and asked nothing better than a chance of making a little money for himself without his employer's knowledge, saw that Eugene had no umbrella, remarked his black coat, white waistcoat, yellow gloves, and varnished boots, and stopped and looked at him inquiringly.
-- It would be better to find favor in my cousin's eyes than to come in contact with that shameless woman, who seems to me to have very expensive tastes.
-- de Beauseant; he would write, it would be much better to do it by letter, and not to utter the words that should stab her to the heart.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in wreck so at-tractive and amiable.
-- The infant had been 28 Frankensteinplaced with these good people to nurse: they were better off then.
-- I have written myself into better spirits, dear cousin; but my anxiety returns upon me as I conclude.
-- Study had before secluded me from the inter-course of my fellow creatures and rendered me unsocial, but Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect of nature and the cheerful fac-es of children.
-- It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose in-tentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execration.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Miss Pitty told us they hadn't intended announcing it till next year, because Miss Melly hasn't been very well;but with all the war talk going around, everybody in both families thought it would be better to get married soon.
-- Nawsuh, Ah got better manners.
-- He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and,shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world.
-- And ordering French and German books by the crate fromthe Yankees!And there they sit reading and dreaming the dear God knows what, when they'd be better spending theirtime hunting and playing poker as proper men should."
-- "There's nobody in the County sits a horse better than Ashley," said Scarlett, furious at the slur of effeminacyflung on Ashley, "nobody except maybe his father.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.
-- But beginning to perceive that the handcuffs were not for me, and that the military had so far got the better of the pie as to put it in the background, I collected a little more of my scattered wits.
-- But I loved Joe,--perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him,--and, as to him, my inner self was not so easily composed.
-- My construction even of their simple meaning was not very correct, for I read "wife of the Above" as a complimentary reference to my father's exaltation to a better world; and if any one of my deceased relations had been referred to as "Below," I have no doubt I should have formed the worst opinions of that member of the family.
-- I could think of nothing better to say than "I am glad you think so, Joe."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I'm off now once for all: I like your cow now a great deal better than this smart beast that played me this trick, and has spoiled my best coat, you see, in this puddle; which, by the by, smells not very like a nosegay.
-- I know nothing of where 14 Grimms' Fairy Talesthe pig was either bred or born; but he may have been the squire's for aught I can tell: you know this country better than I do, take my pig and give me the goose.'
-- 'If that be the case,' said the ass, 'we had better change our quarters, for our lodging is not the best in the world!'
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