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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Stop here, my boy," said the sailor; "we have to prepare an encampment, and to try and find rather better grub than these shell-fish.
-- Better to have two strings to one's bow than no string at all!"
-- "I knew better than that," replied the sailor; "but such a small article could easily disappear in the tumbling about we have gone through.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to idle pursuits like mine; a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street-lamp or a shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the daylight; and, if I must add the truth, night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse.
-- It will be all the better for coming late'; and then he sighed and fell into his former musing state, and still holding the child between his knees appeared to be insensible to everything around him.
-- Free of the room, the boy was not slow in taking his departure; when he had gone, and the child was occupied in clearing the table, the old man said:'I haven't seemed to thank you, sir, for what you have done to-night, but I do thank you humbly and heartily, and so does she, and her thanks are better worth than mine.
-- Then the plain question is, an't it a pity that this state of things should continue, and how much better would it be for the gentleman to hand over a reasonable amount of tin, and make it all right and comfortable?'
-- 'I'll be of better cheer, Nell,' he said; 'there must be good fortune in store for thee I do not ask it for myself, but thee.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally, against marrying Missy in particular, was, first, the extreme probability of his finding a girl of much better qualities than Missy, and, consequently, more worthy of him; and, second, Missy was twenty-seven years old and had probably loved other men before him.
-- He was anxious to talk to the member of the court with the long beard, who shared his views, and before doing so wished to better familiarize himself with it.
-- Call at my office the day after--no, better on Thursday, at six o'clock in the evening, and I will give you an answer.
-- "You'd better tell me this: What did the lawyer say to you about a petition--you must send one now."
-- I deserved a better fate.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a civilised man is better off than the savage in this respect.
-- The thing was generally complete, but the twisted crystalline bars lay unfinished upon the bench beside some sheets of drawings, and I took one up for a better look at it.
-- "I suppose we'd better have dinner?"
-- We improve our favourite plants and animals and how few they are gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower, now a more convenient breed of cattle.
-- Some day all this will be better organised, and still better.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners!You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!'
-- I'd far better help you, hadn't I?'
-- Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment.
-- 'At any rate I'd better be getting out of the wood, for really it's coming on very dark.
-- 'Then you'd better not fight to-day,' said Alice, thinking it a good opportunity to make peace.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Often enough when the first of the month came round and I applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but before the week was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my four-penny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for "the seafaring man with one leg."
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