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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone made way for her, for no-body knew her, and they thought she could be no less than a king's daughter.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- And is there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, be-cause they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked?
-- The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than the neighing of those two degenerate Houyhnhnms I keep in my stable; because from these, degenerate as they are, I still improve in some virtues without any mixture of vice.
-- Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up these cords, by many pulleys fastened on the poles; and thus, in less than three hours, I was raised and slung into 21the engine, and there tied fast.
-- His majesty, who is a most magnanimous prince, was less daunted than I could expect: he ordered me to return it into the scabbard, and cast it on the ground as gently as I could, about six feet from the end of my chain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as often (and it was very often) as an orator of this kind brought into his peroration,'Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,A breath can make them, as a breath has made,' it was, for certain, more or less understood among the company that he had heard of Mrs. Sparsit.
-- They wondered about human nature, human passions, human hopes and fears, the struggles, triumphs and defeats, the cares and joys and sorrows, the lives and deaths of common men and women!They sometimes, after fifteen hours' work, sat down to read mere fables about men and women, more or less like themselves, and about children, more or less like their own.
-- But, less inexorable than iron, steel, and brass, it brought its varying seasons even into that wilderness of smoke and brick, and made the only stand that ever was made in the place against its direful uniformity.
-- But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life.
-- Any capitalist there, who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To me there was nothing like pebbles --and if my uncle had been in a little less of a fury, we should have been the happiest of families.
-- What, then, must be the state of the less known and more distant parts of the island?
-- The soil began to be marshy and boggy, and less favorable to progress.
-- Our journey was now in a westerly direction; we had, in fact, swept round the great bay of Faxa, and the twin white summits of Sneffels rose to the clouds at a distance of less than five miles.
-- One idea, above all others, began to trouble me: a very terrible idea, and one calculated to shake the nerves of a man even less sensitive than myself.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was more or less Constance Chatterley's position.
-- Then he went back to Flanders: to be shipped over to Eng-land again six months later, more or less in bits.
-- One was less in love with the boy afterwards, and a little inclined to hate him, as if he had trespassed on one's privacy and in-ner freedom.
-- And if after the roused intimacy of these vivid and soul-enlightened discussions the sex thing became more or less inevitable, then let it.
-- It is curious what a subtle but unmistakable transmutation it makes, both in the body of men and women: the woman more blooming, more subtly rounded, her young angularities softened, and her expression either anxious or triumphant: the man much quieter, more inward, the very shapes of his shoulders and his buttocks less assertive, more hesitant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mother, our House has done less and less for some years past, and our dealings have been progressively on the decline.
-- I have seen so little happiness come of money; it has brought within my knowledge so little peace to this house, or to any one belonging to it, that it is worth less to me than to another.
-- 'In the days of old, Arthur, treated of in this commentary, there were pious men, beloved of the Lord, who would have cursed their sons for less than this: who would have sent them forth, and sent whole nations forth, if such had supported them, to be avoided of God and man, and perish, down to the baby at the breast.
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