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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rough weather prevented the passengers from going on deck, but did not make the conversation any less animated in the saloon.
-- "By way of compensation, however," he added, "water will boil at less than 100 degrees heat.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this I lowered the top of my sail and lay by, and two of them ran up into the country, and in less than half-an- hour came back, and brought with them two pieces of dried flesh and some corn, such as is the produce of their country; but we neither knew what the one or the other was; however, we were willing to accept it, but how to come at it was our next dispute, for I would not venture on shore to them, and they were as much afraid of us; but they took a safe way for us all, for they brought it to the shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board, and then came close to us again.
-- As the rage of the wind was still great, though rather less than at first, we could not so much as hope to have the ship hold many minutes without breaking into pieces, unless the winds, by a kind of miracle, should turn immediately about.
-- that I was in an island -environed every way with the sea: no land to be seen except some rocks, which lay a great way off; and two small islands, less than this, which lay about three leagues to the west.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as he required the promise, I could not do less than give it; at least I thought so at the time.
-- Why should you be less fortunate than your mother?
-- To quit the neighbourhood of Norland was no longer an evil; it was an object of desire; it was a blessing, in comparison of the misery of continuing her daughter-in-law's guest; and to remove for ever from that beloved place would be less painful than to inhabit or visit it while such a woman was its mistress.
-- His manly beauty and more than common gracefulness were instantly the theme of general admiration, and the laugh which his gallantry raised against Marianne received particular spirit from his exterior attractions. Marianne herself had seen less of his person than the rest, for the confusion which crimsoned over her face, on his lifting her up, had robbed her of the power of regarding him after their entering the house.
-- Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter.
-- The former were drabby-looking creatures, stained in face with oil and dust, clad in thin, shapeless, cotton dresses and shod with more or less worn shoes.
-- They were a fair type of nearly the lowest order of shop-girls-- careless, slouchy, and more or less pale from confinement.
-- She had not expected that he would offer her less than six.
-- It would pay the rent and would make the subject of expenditure a little less difficult to talk about with her husband.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Hank Bunker done it once, and bragged about it; and in less than two years he got drunk and fell off of the shot-tower, and spread him- self out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it.
-- We struck the raft at the same time, and in less than two seconds we was glid-ing down stream, all dark and still, and edging towards the middle of the river, nobody saying a word.
-- They don't have no less than seventeen.'
-- Got it out of a book means the more haste the less speed.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In less than an hour the feet were finished, two slender, nimble little feet, strong and quick, modeled as if by an artist's hands.
-- "Come, come, less nonsense, and out with your money!"
-- They passed through the city and, just outside the walls, they stepped into a lonely field, which looked more or less like any other field.
-- In less than a half hour, at least twenty people passed and Pinocchio begged of each one, but they all answered: "Aren't you ashamed?
-- "By this time I'm late, and one hour more or less makes very little difference."
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