lighter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 打火机， 引燃器，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our road grew lighter and lighter.
-- By a curious effect of specific gravity, these blocks, lighter than water, fled, so to speak, to the vault of the tunnel, that increased in thickness at the top in proportion as it diminished at the base.
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：
-- Then Birkin said, in a lighter tone, letting the stress of the contact pass:"Can't you get a good governess for Winifred? somebody exceptional?"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The descent was effected by means of metallic bars projecting from the sides of the well, and these being adapted to the needs of a creature much smaller and lighter than myself, I was speedily cramped and fatigued by the descent.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crews raced for the beach, but the boat I was in, having some start and being at once the lighter and the better manned, shot far ahead of her consort, and the bow had struck among the shore-side trees and I had caught a branch and swung myself out and plunged into the nearest thicket while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards behind.
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