superior是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 优良的， 卓越的； 上级的n. 上级； 长者； 高手，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Which Farmer-General, carrying an appro-priate cane with a golden apple on the top of it, was now among the company in the outer rooms, much prostrated before by mankind always excepting superior mankind of the blood of Monseigneur, who, his own wife included, looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt.
-- 'We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those superior Beings taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the door barred and the shut-ters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from 463us I say, we were so robbed, and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miser-able race die out!'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Master and mis-tress say thou to their servants the superior to the inferior.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards evening he was always drunk, and he had often been locked up after all sorts of ludicrous and disgraceful scandals, but he was a favorite both of his comrades and his superior officers.
-- Vronsky liked him both for his exceptional physical strength, which he showed for the most part by being able to drink like a fish, and do without sleep without being in the slightest degree affected by it; and for his great strength of character, which he showed in his relations with his comrades and superior officers, commanding both fear and respect, and also at cards, when he would play for tens of thousands and however much he might have drunk, always with such skill and decision that he was reckoned the best player in the English Club.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Provided with more sails than a cutter, and with the wind behind them, they slip over the surface of the prairies with a speed equal if not superior to that of the express trains.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But also as an academic graduate, with a training in the basic sciences, he felt superior to his fellow medics, most of whom had but a high-school diploma, with perhaps one year in a ten- room Lutheran college among the cornfields.
-- Thus they jabbered, while Angus Duer watched them in a superior silence that made Martin nervous.
-- It was disconcerting to Martin that she should seem to think that she was a superior person quite as much as himself, but he was even more disconcerted when she bubbled: "At the same time, Martin, one does have to be practical, doesn't one!Think how much more money--no, I mean how much more social position and power for doing good a successful doctor has than one of these scientists that just putter, and don't know what's going on in the world.
-- Or maybe a great scientist like you, that's so superior to ordinary people, is too good for cherry blossoms!"
-- Various faculty members have complained of your superior attitude-- making fun of our courses right out in class!But Dr. Gottlieb has always warmly defended you.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to some of 78 Crime and Punishmenthis comrades to look down upon them all as children, as though he were superior in development, knowledge and convictions, as though their beliefs and interests were be-neath him.
-- Here was a girl of pride, character, virtue, of education and breeding superior to his own (he felt that), and this creature would be slavishly grateful all her life for his heroic condescension, and would humble herself in the dust before him, and he would have absolute, unbounded power over her!芒聙娄 Not long before, he had, too, after long reflection and hesitation, made an important change in his career and was now entering on a wider circle of business.
-- This certificate of honour was obviously intended now to prove Katerina Iva-novna's right to open a boarding-school; but she had armed herself with it chiefly with the object of overwhelming 'those two stuck-up draggletails' if they came to the din-ner, and proving incontestably that Katerina Ivanovna was of the most noble, 'she might even say aristocratic family, a colonel's daughter and was far superior to certain adven-turesses who have been so much to the fore of late.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had anydoubt of him, I suppose this halfawakened it; but I am inclined tobelieve that with the simple confidence of a child, and the naturalreliance of a child upon superior years (qualities I am very sorryany children should prematurely change for worldly wisdom), Ihad no serious mistrust of him on the whole, even then.
-- Mr. Sharp was the firstmaster, and superior to Mr. Mell.
-- Without exactly understanding whatlearned distinction was meant by this, I respected him greatly forit, and had no doubt whatever of his superior knowledge: thoughhe never took the pains with me- not that I was anybody- that Mr.Mell had taken.
-- 'Sometimes I have risen superior to my difficulties.
-- I wasrather bashful at first, Steerforth being so self-possessed, andelegant, and superior to me in all respects (age included); but hiseasy patronage soon put that to rights, and made me quite at home.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not struck by any thing remarkably clever in Miss Smith's conversation, but she found her altogether very engaging not inconveniently shy, not unwilling to talk and yet so far from pushing, shewing so proper and becoming a deference, seeming so pleasantly grateful for being admitted to Hartfield, and so artlessly impressed by the appearance of every thing in so superior a style to what she had been used to, that she must have good sense, and deserve encouragement.
-- 'I wish you may not get into a scrape, Harriet, whenever he does marry; I mean, as to being acquainted with his wife for though his sisters, from a superior education, are not to be altogether objected to, it does not follow that he might marry any body at all fit for you to notice.
-- She is not the superior young woman which Emma's friend ought to be.
-- She was a beautiful creature when she came to you, but, in my opinion, the at-tractions you have added are infinitely superior to what she received from nature.'
-- As to any thing superior for you, I suppose she is quite in the dark.
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