less是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 更少的(地) ， 更小的(地)，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No Sons and Loverswind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
-- For, the people who were shovelling away on the house-tops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a face-tious snowball better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong.
-- It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than mil-lions like this poor man's child.
-- But she had scarcely entered, when another woman, similarly laden, came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded black, who was no less startled by the sight of them, than they had been upon the recognition of each other.
-- Come back with him in less than five minutes and I'll give you half-a-crown.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiri-tual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it.
-- (Though his manner was less satisfied than his words.)
-- He looked at the two, less and less attentively, and his eyes in gloomy ab-straction sought the ground and looked about him in the old way.
-- They were even boastful of its eminence in those particulars, and were fired by an express conviction that, if it were less objectionable, it would be less respectable.
-- Jerry took the letter, and, remarking to himself with less internal deference than he made an outward show of, 'You are a lean old one, too,' made his bow, informed his son, in 82 A tale of two citiespassing, of his destination, and went his way.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the shoes that caused the metamorphosis by means of which, unknown to himself, he took upon him the thoughts and feelings of the officer; but, as we have just seen, he felt himself in his new situation much less contented, and now preferred the very thing which but some minutes before he had rejected.
-- The sun's light wants eight minutes and some seconds to perform a journey of more than twenty million of our Danish* miles; borne by electricity, the soul wants even some minutes less to accomplish the same flight.
-- But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly endowed, demands always a more or less breakneck leap over a certain abyss which yawns threateningly below; and thus must the sudden change with the clerk strike the read-er.
-- 'Perhaps the river will carry me to little Kay,' said she; and then she grew less sad.
-- 'Mahogany!It cannot be less with you!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Young Shtcherbatsky went into the navy, was drowned in the Baltic, and Levin's relations with the Shtcherbatskys, in spite of his friendship with Oblonsky, became less intimate.
-- But Sergey Ivanovitch, who had been talking with far less heat and one-sidedness than the professor, and who had sufficient breadth of mind to answer the professor, and at the same time to comprehend the simple and natural point of view from which the question was put, smiled and said: "That question we have no right to answer as yet."
-- Although he did go more or less into Petersburg society, his love affairs had always hitherto been outside it.
-- Still less could he have believed that he ought to marry.
-- He did not in his heart respect his mother, and without acknowledging it to himself, he did not love her, though in accordance with the ideas of the set in which he lived, and with his own education, he could not have conceived of any behavior to his mother not in the highest degree respectful and obedient, and the more externally obedient and respectful his behavior, the less in his heart he respected and loved her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the same table, never taking his meals with other members, much less bringing a guest with him; and went home at exactly midnight, only to retire at once to bed.
-- IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEARPhileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions.
-- But surely a gentleman so chary of his steps would stop there; no doubt but, then, it was none the less true that he was going away, this so domestic person hitherto!
-- Articles no less passionate than logical appeared on the question, for geography is one of the pet subjects of the English; and the columns devoted to Phileas Fogg's venture were eagerly devoured by all classes of readers.
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