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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the crowd was an athletic young fellow of somewhat superior appearance to the rest in fact, his superiority was marked enough to lead several ruddy peasants standing by to speak to him inquiringly, as to a farmer, and to use "Sir" as a finishing word.
-- Unlike and superior to either of those two typical remnants of medi脙娄valism, the old barn embodied practices which had suffered no mutilation at the hands of time.
-- Then up comes Maryann; throws the loose locks into the middle of the fleece, rolls it up, and carries it into the background as three-and-a-half pounds of unadulterated warmth for the winter enjoyment of persons unknown and far away, who will, however, never experience the superlative comfort derivable from the wool as it here exists, new and pure before the unctuousness of its nature whilst in a living state has dried, stiffened, and been washed out rendering it just now as superior to anything woollen as cream is superior to milk-and-water.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The subject between the two windows is the banquet given by Calypso to the son of Ulysses, displayed thereon for the admiration of the boarders, and has furnished jokes these forty years to the young men who show themselves superior to their position by making fun of the dinners to which poverty condemns them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended.
-- Alas!Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.
-- Remember, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself; my height is superior to thine, my joints more supple.
-- I saw few human beings besides them, and if any other happened to enter the cot-tage, their harsh manners and rude gait only enhanced to me the superior accomplishments of my friends.
-- I looked upon them as superior beings who would be the arbiters of my future destiny.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The house negroes of theCounty considered themselves superior to white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their more secureposition in life stirred his envy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In order, however, that our superior position might not be compromised thereby, a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf, into which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped.
-- "If you have the heart to be so, you mean, Biddy," said I, in a virtuous and superior tone; "don't put it off upon me.
-- Your friend Mr. Matthew, I believe, is superior to the rest of his family?"
-- "Very superior indeed.
-- But I had as sound a sleep in that lodging as in the most superior accommodation the Boar could have given me, and the quality of my dreams was about the same as in the best bedroom.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The king gathered together his people, and did not know whether or not he could offer any opposition to the ene-my, who was superior in strength and had a mighty army.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understand-ing, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.
-- But they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by superior endowments of the mind, that employments could never be put into such dan- 67gerous hands as those of persons so qualified; and, at least, that the mistakes committed by ignorance, in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to man-age, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.
-- For which the astronomers (who have written large systems concerning the stone) as-sign the following reason: that the magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles, and that the min-eral, which acts upon the stone in the bowels of the earth, and in the sea about six leagues distant from the shore, is not diffused through the whole globe, but terminated with the limits of the king's dominions; and it was easy, from the great advantage of such a superior situation, for a prince to bring under his obedience whatever country lay within the attraction of that magnet.
-- However, since the king was pleased to allow me access to his royal person, I was resolved, upon the very first occasion, to deliver my opinion to him on this matter freely and at large, by the help of my interpreter; and whether he would please to take my advice or not, yet in one thing I was determined, that his majesty having frequently offered me an establishment in this country, I would, with great thankfulness, accept the favour, and pass my life here in the conversation of those superior beings the struldbrugs, if they would please to admit me.'
-- They will have it that nature teaches them to love the whole species, and it is reason only that makes a distinction of persons, where there is a superior degree of virtue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wretched ignorance with which Jupe clung to this consolation, rejecting the superior comfort of knowing, on a sound arithmetical basis, that her father was an unnatural vagabond, filled Mr. Gradgrind with pity.
-- 'I wish with all my heart, sir,' said Mrs. Sparsit, in a highly superior manner; somehow she seemed, in a moment, to have established a right to pity him ever afterwards; 'that you may be in all respects very happy.'
-- Mrs. Sparsit shook her head, still in her highly superior manner, and a little changed the small cough coughing now, as if the spirit of prophecy rose within her, but had better be coughed down.
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