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：
-- "All that I can recollect is that Robert Grant was still by my side, holding fast by a tuft of lichen, less than two minutes before the shock which finished our descent."
-- CHAPTER XV THALCAVEROBERT had no sooner escaped one terrible danger than he ran the risk of another scarcely less formidable.
-- They got back to the camp in less than half an hour, and were hailed with acclamations by the whole party or rather the provisions and horses were.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I have set it down it is because that which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
-- For both these reasons I thought that I was justified in telling rather less than I knew, since no practical good could result from it, but with you there is no reason why I should not be perfectly frank.
-- The other words were all simple and might be found in any issue, but 'moor' would be less common.'
-- It's an ugly business, Watson, an ugly dangerous business, and the more I see of it the less I like it.
-- Then on the top of these more or less vague im-pressions there had come the definite and distinct warning of Miss Stapleton, delivered with such intense earnestness that I could not doubt that some grave and deep reason lay behind it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the case of an execution, that last hope hav-ing which it is so immeasurably less dreadful to die, is taken away from the wretch and CERTAINTY substituted in its place!There is his sentence, and with it that terrible certainty that he cannot possibly escape death which, I consider, must be the most dreadful anguish in the world.
-- 'Was it not you, then, who sent a letter a year or less ago from Switzerland, I think it was to Elizabetha Prokofievna (Mrs.
-- I give you all this information, prince, in order to make it clear to you that I am personally recommending you to this family, and that in so doing, I am more or less taking upon myself to answer for you.
-- Perhaps the sisterly love and friendship of the three girls had more or less exaggerated Aglaya's chances of happiness.
-- A strange rumour began to circulate, meanwhile; no less than that the respectable and highly respected General Ep-anchin was himself so fascinated by Nastasia Philipovna that his feeling for her amounted almost to passion.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Achaeans were angry and disgusted, yet none the less he kept on brawling and bawling at the son of Atreus.
-- He accepted the sacrifice, yet none the less increased their toil continually.
-- As he spoke he hurled his spear and hit one of those who were in the front rank, the comrade of Aeneas, Deicoon son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans held in no less honour than the sons of Priam, for he was ever quick to place himself among the foremost.
-- 'Jove,' he cried, 'grant that this my child may be even as myself, chief among the Trojans; let him be not less excellent in strength, and let him rule Ilius with his might.
-- A god less powerful than yourself might be alarmed at what they are doing, but your fame reaches as far as dawn itself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat in the corner with his back to the window- blind and spoke now, having eaten and drunk and being comfortably warmed through, with less aggressive brevity than before.
-- Miss Statchell sang it at the schoolroom concert (in aid of the church lamps), and thereafter whenever one or two of the villagers were gathered together and the stranger appeared, a bar or so of this tune, more or less sharp or flat, was whistled in the midst of them.
-- Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
-- A glass box would not be so brilliant, not so clearly visible, as a diamond box, because there would be less refraction and reflection.
-- "This running warmed me to a certain extent, and I went on with a better courage through the maze of less frequented roads that runs hereabouts.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, rest- less eyes.
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