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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Immediately after, the stranger's hat hopped off the bed-post, described a whirling flight in the air through the better part of a circle, and then dashed straight at Mrs. Hall's face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We thought the people on the launch would be better provisioned (though it seems they were not), and we tried to hail them.
-- After all, it is better to keep your secret.
-- The creature was little better than an idiot.
-- 'Because that is better than being tortured by you.'
-- Surgery can do better things than that.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He loved better than any-thing else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest, to sleep all through the drowsy day, and at night see how Bagheera did his killing.
-- But I caught Tabaqui by the tail and swung him twice against a palm-tree to teach him better manners.'
-- 'Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,' Baloo answered very earnestly.
-- Then he grew angry but knew better than to struggle, and then he began to think.
-- Baloo will surely beat me, but that is better than chasing silly rose leaves with the Bandar-log.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await the ap-proach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.
-- The other, who appeared to share equally in the attention of the young officer, con-cealed her charms from the gaze of the soldiery with a care that seemed better fitted to the experience of four or five additional years.
-- 'If we journey with the troops, though we may find their presence irksome, shall we not feel better assurance of our safety?'
-- 'Judge not too rashly from hasty and deceptive appear-ances,' said the lady, smiling; 'though Major Heyward can assume such deep notes on occasion, believe me, his natu-ral tones are better fitted for a mellow tenor than the bass you heard.'
-- 'That I will, and in English that the king needn't beashamed to answer,' returned the hunter, speaking in the language of which he boasted; 'but I see nothing, nor do I hear the sounds of man or beast; 'tis strange that an Indian should understand white sounds better than a man who, his very enemies will own, has no cross in his blood, although he may have lived with the red skins long enough to be sus-pected!Ha!there goes something like the cracking of a dry stick, too now I hear the bushes move yes, yes, there is a trampling that I mistook for the falls and but here they come themselves; God keep them from the Iroquois!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Balt Van Tassel was an easy indul-gent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice.
-- Then we would speak of this publisher and of that, comparing the generosity of one with the meanness of another; we would argue whether it was better to go to one who gave handsome royalties or to another who "pushed" a book for all it was worth.
-- "You'd better have one too, Amy," he said.
-- He'd better not let me catch sight of him.
-- There never was a better woman in the world."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The grief of Neb and his companions, who were all strongly attached to the intrepid Harding, can be better pictured than described.
-- It was a wretched repast, but still it was better than nothing.
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