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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Less so, and probably far more extensive, were the operations of those mediaeval practitioners who made dwarfs and beg-gar-cripples, show-monsters, some vestiges of whose art still remain in the preliminary manipulation of the young mountebank or contortionist.
-- The mental structure is even less determinate than the bodily.
-- So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your own pains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions about sin, so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely what an animal feels.
-- Then with men, the more intelligent they become, the more intel-ligently they will see after their own welfare, and the less they will need the goad to keep them out of danger.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A blow more or less is nothing to thee, Bagheera or Baloo, but I I have to wait and wait for days in a wood-path and climb half a night on the mere chance of a young ape.
-- In the other, the bulls and the young bulls snorted and stamped, but though they looked more impos-ing they were much less dangerous, for they had no calves to protect.
-- The men were no less than Kerick Booterin, the chief of the seal-hunters on the island, and Patalamon, his son.
-- Now those foolish hunters, whose pay is less than my pay, have spoken to Petersen Sahib of the matter.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mingo was a term of peculiar reproach, as were Mengwe and Maqua in a less degree.
-- The less zealous English thought they con-ferred a sufficient honor on its unsullied fountains, when they bestowed the name of their reigning prince, the second of the house of Hanover.
-- It has already been mentioned that the dis-tance between these two posts was less than five leagues.
-- While the regular and trained hire-lings of the king marched with haughtiness to the right of the line, the less pretending colonists took their humbler position on its left, with a docility that long practice had rendered easy.
-- Here their progress was less interrupted; and the instant the guide perceived that the females could com-mand their steeds, he moved on, at a pace between a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the surefooted and pe-culiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius.
-- It was not till four years after Strickland's death that Maurice Huret wrote that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less docility, have followed.
-- Fortunately, there is no need for me to risk the adventure, since my friend, Mr. Edward Leggatt, an able writer as well as an admirable painter, has exhaustively discussed Charles Strickland's work in a little book芒聭麓 which is a charming example of a style, for the most part, less happily cultivated in England than in France.
-- It is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,芒聭路 was sold at Christie's shortly after the discussion which followed the publication of Mr. Strickland's biography, it fetched POUNDS 235 less than it had done nine months before when it was bought by the distinguished collector whose sudden death had brought it once more under the hammer.
-- It was evident that she had been prepared to weep, for she had provided herself with a sufficiency of handkerchiefs; I admired her forethought, but in retrospect it made her tears perhaps less moving.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But while so many catastrophes were taking place on land and at sea, a drama not less exciting was being enacted in the agitated air.
-- It cannot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distance, for it could not have traveled less than two thousand miles in twenty-four hours.
-- The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.
-- The night passed in the midst of alarms which would have been death to less energetic souls.
-- It was still what sailors call "a close-reefed topsail breeze," but the commotion in the elements had none the less considerably diminished.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The more I thought of what the old man had said, and of his looks and bearing, the less I could account for what I had seen and heard.
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