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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She seemed to prefer a less tragic probability; to have saved a man from death involved talk that should harmonise with the dignity of such a deed and she shunned it.
-- Nothing disturbed the stillness of the cottage save the chatter of a knot of sparrows on the eaves; one might fancy scandal and rumour to be no less the staple topic of these little coteries on roofs than of those under them.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Civilization, like the car of Juggernaut, is scarcely stayed perceptibly in its progress by a heart less easy to break than the others that lie in its course; this also is broken, and Civilization continues on her course triumphant.
-- In a corner stands a box containing a set of numbered pigeon-holes, in which the lodgers' table napkins, more or less soiled and stained with wine, are kept.
-- Such prices as these are confined to the Faubourg Saint-Marcel and the district between La Bourbe and the Salpetriere; and, as might be expected, poverty, more or less apparent, weighed upon them all, Mme.
-- Less superficial observers than young men engulfed by the whirlpool of Parisian life, or old men, who took no interest in anything that did not directly concern them, would not have stopped short at the vaguely unsatisfactory impression that Vautrin made upon them.
-- Had he brought it on himself by some eccentricity or absurdity, which is less easily forgiven or forgotten than more serious defects?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me.
-- I attended the lec-tures and cultivated the acquaintance of the men of science of the university, and I found even in M. Krempe a great deal of sound sense and real information, combined, it is true, with a repulsive physiognomy and manners, but not on that account the less valuable.
-- I trembled excessively; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude to, the occurrences of the preceding night.
-- Hence there is less distinction between the several classes of its in-habitants; and the lower orders, being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are more refined and moral.
-- How altered every thing might be during that time!One sudden and desolating change had taken place; but a thousand little circumstances might have by degrees worked other alterations, which, although they were done more tranquilly, might not be the less decisive.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves thanany one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.
-- They thought none the less of her for her lack of interest.
-- I'll lay you two to one she didn't even know the fort was out there in the harbor, much less that itwas full of Yankees until we shelled them out.
-- The upshot of the matter was that every planter agreed to pay for equipping his own sons and a certainnumber of the others, but the manner of handling the arrangements was such that the less wealthy members of the outfitcould accept horses and uniforms without offense to their honor.
-- Scarlett was impressed less than anyone else by his tempers and his roarings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After favoring them with some heads of that discourse, he remarked that he considered the subject of the day's homily, ill chosen; which was the less excusable, he added, when there were so many subjects "going about."
-- Dresses, less splendid than the dress she wore, and half-packed trunks, were scattered about.
-- Nothing less than the frosty light of the cheerful sky, the sight of people passing beyond the bars of the court-yard gate, and the reviving influence of the rest of the bread and meat and beer, would have brought me round.
-- Nothing less than two fat sweltering one-pound notes that seemed to have been on terms of the warmest intimacy with all the cattle-markets in the county.
-- If I could be less affectionate and sensitive, I should have a better digestion and an iron set of nerves.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I fear one unicorn still less than two gi-ants.
-- He had not even so much as a cow, and still less money to buy one, and yet he and his wife did so wish to have one.
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