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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were offered by packages, at first of five, then of ten, until at last nobody would take less than twenty, fifty, a hundred!
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also a belief that its proprietor must once have been called Doctor Vickerson, but for years he had been only The Doc, and he was scurfier and much less adjustable than the chair.
-- Later the salesman was less genial.
-- With booming decorum he presided at class meetings (indignant meetings to denounce the proposal to let the "aggies" use the North Side Tennis Courts), but in private life he was less decorous.
-- If he was less annoying in regard to his classmates, he was more so in his classrooms.
-- In six years at Mohalis, Martin had gone to less than a score of dances, though the refined titillations of communal embracing were the chief delight of the co-educational university.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not her shoes that would be more or less in the order of things, but her stock-ings, her stockings I have sold for drink!Her mohair shawl I sold for drink, a present to her long ago, her own property, not mine; and we live in a cold room and she caught cold this winter and has begun coughing and spitting blood too.
-- The luggage will cost less than their fares and very likely go for nothing.
-- Why!she'd live on black bread and water, she would not sell her soul, she would not barter her moral freedom for comfort; she would not barter it for all Schleswig-Holstein, much less Mr. Luzhin's money.
-- A peculiar circumstance attract-ed his attention: there seemed to be some kind of festivity going on, there were crowds of gaily dressed townspeople, peasant women, their husbands, and riff-raff of all sorts, all singing and all more or less drunk.
-- In any case, it would have been difficult to find out beforehand and with certainty, with greater exact-ness and less risk, and without dangerous inquiries and investigations, that next day at a certain time an old wom-an, on whose life an attempt was contemplated, would be at home and entirely alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, I havenothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which mightbe of less moment still) that no one can ever believe this Narrative,in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
-- Yet, I hadnothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which mightbe of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative,in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.
-- He sidled in and out ofa room, to take up the less space.
-- Peggotty began to be less with us, of an evening, than she hadalways been.
-- Ihad little doubt then, and I have less doubt now, that he wouldhave knocked me down without the least compunction, if I hadhesitated.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma.
-- Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not par-ticularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.
-- She was not less pleased another day with the manner in which he seconded a sudden wish of hers, to have Harriet's pic-ture.
-- She must allow him to be still fre-quently coming to look; any thing less would certainly have been too little in a lover; and he was ready at the smallest intermission of the pencil, to jump up and see the progress, and be charmed. There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a like-ness almost before it was possible.
-- 'You, sir, may say any thing,' cried Mr. Elton, 'but I must confess that I regard it as a most happy thought, the plac-ing of Miss Smith out of doors; and the tree is touched with such inimitable spirit!Any other situation would have been much less in character.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
-- The thin grasses, more or less coating the hill, were touched by the wind in breezes of differing powers, and almost of differing natures one rubbing the blades heavily, another raking them piercingly, another brushing them like a soft broom.
-- The adjustment of the farmer's hazy conceptions of her charms to the portrait of herself she now presented him with was less a diminution than a difference.
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