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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Good idea have a place more or less your own," said Gerald.
-- And her soul writhed in the black subjugation to him, because of his power to escape, to exist, other than she did, because he was not consistent, not a man, less than a man.
-- Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth.
-- Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
-- By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rough as a saw edge, and hard as whinstone!The less you meddle with him the better.
-- So, from the very beginning, he bred bad feeling in the house; and at Mrs. Earnshaw's death, which happened in less than two years after, the young master had learned to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend, and Heathcliff as a usurper of his parent's affections and his privileges; and he grew bitter with brooding over these injuries.
-- The difference between him and the others forced me to be less partial.
-- Now, Mr. Earnshaw did not understand jokes from his children: he had always been strict and grave with them; and Catherine, on her part, had no idea why her father should be crosser and less patient in his ailing condition than he was in his prime.
-- 'But, Nelly, if I knocked him down twenty times, that wouldn't make him less handsome or me more so.
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