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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here I stand, with the contamination of a jail upon me; but it is possible that you may think me better suited to her than her former husband was.'
-- How many better prisoners have worn their noble hearts out so; no man thinking of it; not even the beloved of their souls realising it; great kings and governors, who had made them captive, careering in the sunlight jauntily, and men cheering them on.
-- The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Meg, who could remember better times.
-- He is well, and thinks he shall get through the cold season better than we feared.
-- I thought it was better to do it so, be-cause Meg's initials are M.M., and I don't want anyone to use these but Marmee,' said Beth;, looking troubled.
-- 'That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it,' said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hum-mels.
-- She liked the 'Laurence boy' better than ever and took several good looks at him, so that she might describe him to the girls, for they had no brothers, very few male cousins, and boys were almost un-known creatures to them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep.
-- But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way he can better answer than any one else.
-- I s'pose you are goin' a-whalin', so you'd better get used to that sort of thing."
-- "I tell you what it is, landlord," said I quite calmly, "you'd better stop spinning that yarn to me I'm not green."
-- "But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Lor bless her dear heart, when she has lived as long as I have, sir, and had thirteen children of her own, and all on 'em dead except two, and them in the wurkus with me, she'll know better than to take on in that way, bless her dear heart!Think what it is to be a mother, there's a dear young lamb do.'
-- 'He doats on it, your worship,' replied Bumble; giving Oliver a sly pinch, to intimate that he had better not say he didn't.
-- The people who have been better off, and have paid rates for many years, are the first to sink when they come into the house; and let me tell you, Mr. Bumble, that three or four inches over one's calculation makes a great hole in one's profits: especially when one has a family to provide for, sir.'
-- said the undertaker: raising the candle above his head, to get a better view of Oliver.
-- He needn't haven taken the trouble to shrink from Mr. Bumble's glance, however; for that functionary, on whom the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat had made a very strong impression, thought that now the undertaker had got Oliver upon trial the subject was better avoided, until such time as he should be firmly bound for seven years, and all danger of his being returned upon the hands of the parish should be thus effectually and legally overcome.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia.
-- You had much better dance.'
-- You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.'
-- Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speak- ing to, a wish of being better acquainted with THEM was expressed towards the two eldest.
-- In nine cases out of ten a women had better show MORE affection than she feels.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
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