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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Xury and I went to work with him; but Xury was much the better workman at it, for I knew very ill how to do it.
-- I was once inclined to have gone on shore to them; but Xury was my better coun-sellor, and said to me, 'No go, no go.'
-- Is it better to be here or there?'
-- goats, pigeons, and turtle, or tortoise, which added to my grapes, Leadenhall market could not have furnished a table better than I, in propor-tion to the company; and though my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Perhaps, then, it would be better for all parties, if the sum were diminished one half. Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes!"
-- "To be sure," said she, "it is better than parting with fifteen hundred pounds at once.
-- "I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there should be no annuity in the case; whatever I may give them occasionally will be of far greater assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they felt sure of a larger income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year.
-- He said much of his earnest desire of their living in the most sociable terms with his family, and pressed them so cordially to dine at Barton Park every day till they were better settled at home, that, though his entreaties were carried to a point of perseverance beyond civility, they could not give offence.
-- But Sir John's satisfaction in society was much more real; he delighted in collecting about him more young people than his house would hold, and the noisier they were the better was he pleased.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You'd better look in those big manufacturing houses along Franklin Street and just the other side of the river," he concluded.
-- Things would go on, though, in a dim kind of way until the better thing would eventuate, and Carrie would be rewarded for coming and toiling in the city.
-- She had been used to better than that.
-- She might find another and better later.
-- So earnest an effort was well deserving of a better reward.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow's if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and ornery.
-- You had better let me invest it along with your six thousand, because if you take it you'll spend it.'
-- He tore it up, and says: 'I'll give you something better I'll give you a cowhide.
-- When he had got out on the shed he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn't drop that.
-- When it was dark I set by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lone-some, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, it is better to fry you in a pan!Or shall I drink you?
-- "But I am not like other boys!I am better than all of them and I always tell the truth.
-- "So much the better for you!"
-- Instead of listening to his good advice, Pinocchio turned to him and said as roughly as he knew how: "Keep quiet, ugly Gab!It would be better for you to chew a few cough drops to get rid of that cold you have.
-- Go to bed and sleep!You will feel better in the morning."
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