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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But strolling on to the Bank to kill time, and having the good fortune to observe at the window,' towards which he languidly waved his hand, then slightly bowed, 'a lady of a very superior and agreeable appearance, I considered that I could not do better than take the liberty of asking that lady where Mr. Bounderby the Banker does live.
-- Mr. Bounderby, having got it into his explosive composition that Mrs. Sparsit was a highly superior woman to perceive that he had that general cross upon him in his deserts (for he had not yet settled what it was), and further that Louisa would have objected to her as a frequent visitor if it had comported with his greatness that she should object to anything he chose to do, resolved not to lose sight of Mrs. Sparsit easily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men appeared robust but heavy; fair-haired like Germans, but of pensive mien--exiles of a higher scale in the ladder of humanity than the Eskimos, but, I thought, much more unhappy, since with superior perceptions they are compelled to live within the limits of the Polar Circle.
-- time, and metros, measure) a time measurer, or superior watcg--Ruhmkorff's coil, an instrument for producing currents of induced electricity of great intensity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She liked the colliers, whom she had nursed for so long; but she felt very superior to them.
-- he said in a cool superior tone.
-- He was dressed, and with a black tie: rather reserved, and very much the superior gentleman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see none like them in that place, but he is admitted to be superior to all the rest.
-- He had a superior eye-glass dangling round his neck, but unfortunately had such flat orbits to his eyes and such limp little eyelids that it wouldn't stick in when he put it up, but kept tumbling out against his waistcoat buttons with a click that discomposed him very much.
-- The Father of the Marshalsea showed the amiable solicitude of a superior being that he should come to no harm.
-- If I am ever a little provoking, I am sure you'll consider what a thing it is to occupy my position and feel a consciousness of being superior to it.
-- 'Dear Arthur force of habit, Mr Clennam every way more delicate and adapted to existing circumstances I must beg to be excused for taking the liberty of this intrusion but I thought I might so far presume upon old times for ever faded never more to bloom as to call with Mr F.'s Aunt to congratulate and offer best wishes, A great deal superior to China not to be denied and much nearer though higher up!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a queer smell!It's like burned feathers,' observed Amy, smoothing her own pretty curls with a superior air.
-- Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed, and began to wish she had not humbled herself, to feel more injured than ever, and to plume her-self on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating.
-- How charming that was, to be sure!John quite glowed with pride to hear her say it, and felt what a blessed thing it was to have a superior wife.
-- It's a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel,' he said, shak-ing out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo's shoulders.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account books bound in superior old shark-skin.
-- And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language that man makes one in a whole nation's census a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.
-- I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals, pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy conceits on these subjects.
-- "Captain Ahab," said Starbuck, who, with Stubb and Flask, had thus far been eyeing his superior with increasing surprise, but at last seemed struck with a thought which somewhat explained all the wonder.
-- And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were the faces of friends, and foes, and of many that had been almost strangers peering intrusively from the crowd; there were the faces of young and blooming girls that were now old women; there were faces that the grave had changed and closed upon, but which the mind, superior to its power, still dressed in their old freshness and beauty, calling back the lustre of the eyes, the brightness of the smile, the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay, and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb, changed but to be heightened, and taken from earth only to be set up as a light, to shed a soft and gentle glow upon the path to Heaven.
-- Corney,' said the beadle, smiling as men smile who are conscious of superior information, 'out-of-door relief, properly managed: properly managed, ma'am: is the porochial safeguard.
-- The old crone tottered along the passages, and up the stairs, muttering some indistinct answers to the chidings of her companion; being at length compelled to pause for breath, she gave the light into her hand, and remained behind to follow as she might: while the more nimble superior made her way to the room where the sick woman lay.
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