excel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 杰出, 胜过, 优于，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Really, Watson, you excel yourself,' said Holmes, push-ing back his chair and lighting a cigarette.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- BOOK V hen Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Di-Tomed, son of Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself with glory.
-- Then Hector said, 'Ajax, heaven has vouchsafed you stature and strength, and judgement; and in wielding the spear you excel all others of the Achaeans.
-- 'Son of Ty-deus,' said he, 'in war your prowess is beyond question, and in council you excel all who are of your own years; no one of the Achaeans can make light of what you say nor gain-say it, but you have not yet come to the end of the whole matter.
-- Because heaven has so richly endowed you with the arts of war, you think that you must therefore excel others in counsel; but you cannot thus claim preeminence in all things.
-- Therein he slew Thersilochus, Mydon, Asty-pylus, Mnesus, Thrasius, Oeneus, and Ophelestes, and he would have slain yet others, had not the river in anger taken human form, and spoken to him from out the deep waters saying, 'Achilles, if you excel all in strength, so do you also in wickedness, for the gods are ever with you to protect you: if, then, the son of Saturn has vouchsafed it to you to destroy all the Trojans, at any rate drive them out of my stream, and do your grim work on land.
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：
-- The book was open at a hymn not ill adapted to their situation, and in which the poet, no longer goaded by his desire to excel the inspired King of Israel, had discovered some chastened and respectable powers.
-- 'I have found many marvels during my sojourn with the heathen, but surely nothing to excel this.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the danger is much greater, when the ministers themselves are commanded to show their dexterity; for, by contending to excel themselves and their fellows, they strain so far that there is hardly one of them who has not received a fall, and some of them two or three.
-- In the second place, I would, from my earliest youth, apply myself to the study of arts and sciences, by which I should arrive in time to excel all others in learn-ing.
-- However, this confirmed my first opinion, that a people who could so far civilise brute animals, must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world.
-- 'The palace of a chief minister is a seminary to breed up others in his own trade: the pages, lackeys, and porters, by imitating their master, become ministers of state in their several districts, and learn to excel in the three principal ingredients, of insolence, lying, and bribery.
-- Strength is chiefly valued in the male, and come-liness in the female; not upon the account of love, but to preserve the race from degenerating; for where a female happens to excel in strength, a consort is chosen, with re-gard to comeliness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You excel so much in the dance, Miss Eliza, that it is cru-el to deny me the happiness of seeing you; and though this gentleman dislikes the amusement in general, he can have no objection, I am sure, to oblige us for one half-hour.'
-- 'I am very glad to hear such a good account of her,' said Lady Catherine; 'and pray tell her from me, that she cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal.'
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