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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And would a better fate have fallen to my lot?'
-- 'I hardly know where I am going, or what I had better do,' said the soldier; 'but I think I should like very well to find out where it is that the princesses dance, and then in time I might be a king.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author's permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party.
-- For the better convenience of beholding him, I lay on my side, so that my face was parallel to his, and he stood but three yards off: however, I have had him since many times in my hand, and therefore cannot be deceived in the descrip-tion.
-- I had, the evening before, drunk plentifully of a most delicious wine called glimigrim, (the Blefuscudians call it flunec, but ours is esteemed the better sort,) which is very diuretic.
-- The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning be-fore the sea, than trying or hulling.
-- We would not get down our topmast, but let all stand, because she scudded before the sea very well, and we knew that the top-mast being aloft, the ship was the wholesomer, and made better way through the sea, seeing we had sea-room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!
-- 'And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of to-day, though in itself a trifling one, as if something had crept into Thomas's and Louisa's minds which is or rather, which is not I don't know that I can express myself better than by saying which has never been intended to be developed, and in which their reason has no part.'
-- 'Poor Sissy!He had better have apprenticed her,' said Childers, giving his hair another shake, as he looked up from the empty box.
-- To thpeak plain to you, my opinion ith that you had better cut it thort, and drop it.
-- The better class of minds, however, did not need to be informed that the Powlers were an ancient stock, who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it was not surprising if they sometimes lost themselves which they had rather frequently done, as respected horse-flesh, blind-hookey, Hebrew monetary transactions, and the Insolvent Debtors' Court.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would he come home in better humor?
-- As there was nothing I liked better than horse exercise, the pleasure of riding through an unknown country caused the early part of our enterprise to be particularly agreeable to me.
-- It were better to give way wholly to despair!
-- I seemed to be actually getting better under the influence of this novelty.
-- "Yes, Harry, my boy, there is certainly something providential in that wandering at the mercy of wind and waves towards the south: we have come back exactly north; and what is better still, we fall upon this great discovery of Cape Saknussemm.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Clifford, while he was better bred than Connie, and more 'society', was in his own way more provincial and more timid.
-- Clifford professed to like Wragby better than London.
-- And of course men like you think you'll get through better with a woman's back-ing.
-- 'Not at all, I'd better not know...But you do agree with me, don't you, that the casual sex thing is nothing, compared to the long life lived together?
-- 'No, you'd better come along in case she sticks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So far, and waiving their use to himself, a clockmaker could have made a better pair.
-- Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the echoes were the weaker for imprisonment, and seemed to lag), reminded him with a push of his foot that he had better resume his own darker place.
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