than是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为conj. (用于形容词， 副词的比较级之后) 比，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout, who had conscientiously studied the programme of his duties, was more than surprised to see his master guilty of the inexactness of appearing at this unaccustomed hour; for, according to rule, he was not due in Saville Row until precisely midnight.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also a belief that its proprietor must once have been called Doctor Vickerson, but for years he had been only The Doc, and he was scurfier and much less adjustable than the chair.
-- When he lifted his head to listen, his right eyebrow, slightly higher than the left, rose and quivered in his characteristic expression of energy, of independence, and a hint that he could fight, a look of impertinent inquiry which had been known to annoy his teachers and the Sunday School superintendent.
-- The most unsanitary corner was devoted to the cast-iron sink, which was oftener used for washing eggy breakfast plates than for sterilizing instruments.
-- The wild raggedness of the room was the soul and symbol of Doc Vickerson; it was more exciting than the flat-faced stack of shoe- boxes in the New York Bazaar: it was the lure to questioning and adventure for Martin Arrowsmith.
-- As a medic he was more picturesque than other students, for medics are reputed to know secrets, horrors, exhilarating wickednesses.
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：
-- In the words of a Russian critic, who seeks to explain the feeling inspired by Dostoevsky: 'He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom 芒聙娄 that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live.
-- His garret was under the roof of a high, five-sto-ried house and was more like a cupboard than a room.
-- But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, ir-relevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to pre-varicate, to lie no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
-- But no, no!It's all in vain and it's no use talking!No use talk-ing!For more than once, my wish did come true and more than once she has felt for me but 芒聙娄 such is my fate and I am a beast by nature!'
-- That's why she would not overlook Mr. Lebeziatnikov's rudeness to her, and so when he gave her a beating for it, she took to her bed more from the hurt to her feelings than from the blows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 215I Am a New Boy in More Senses Than OneCHAPTER XVII .
-- Yet, I havenothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which mightbe of less moment still) that no one can ever believe this Narrative,in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
-- I cannotclose this Volume more agreeably to myself, than with a hopefulglance towards the time when I shall again put forth my two greenleaves once a month, and with a faithful remembrance of the genialsun and showers that have fallen on these leaves of DavidCopperfield, and made me happy.
-- Yet, I hadnothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which mightbe of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative,in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.
-- I need say nothing here on the first head, because nothing canshow better than my history whether that prediction was verifiedor falsified by the result.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as gov-erness, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
-- Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma.
-- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudi-narian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though ev-erywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
-- He lived about a mile from Highbury, was a frequent visitor, and always welcome, and at this time more welcome than usual, as coming directly from their mutual connexions in London.
-- I have a great regard for you and Emma; but when it comes to the question of depen-dence or independence! At any rate, it must be better to 10 Emmahave only one to please than two.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I believe I am correct in stating that, until the existence of this contemporaneous Wessex was announced in the present story, in 1874, it had never been heard of, and that the expression, "a Wessex peasant," or "a Wessex custom," would theretofore have been taken to refer to nothing later in date than the Norman Conquest.
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
-- This instrument being several years older than Oak's grandfather, had the peculiarity of going either too fast or not at all.
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