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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across one of his fields on a certain December morning sunny and exceedingly mild might have regarded Gabriel Oak in other aspects than these.
-- But there is a way some men have, rural and urban alike, for which the mind is more responsible than flesh and sinew: it is a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of showing them.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Civilization, like the car of Juggernaut, is scarcely stayed perceptibly in its progress by a heart less easy to break than the others that lie in its course; this also is broken, and Civilization continues on her course triumphant.
-- The little garden is no wider than the front of the house; it is shut in between the wall of the street and the partition wall of the neighboring house.
-- Nothing can be more depressing than the sight of that sitting-room.
-- You can no more imagine the one without the other, than you can think of a jail without a turnkey.
-- If any one complained rather more than usual, he would offer his services at once.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach.
-- At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.
-- Now I am twenty-eight and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen.
-- The winter has been dreadfully severe, but the spring promises well, and it is considered as a remarkably early season, so that perhaps I may sail sooner than I expected.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is one of the most popular books ever written ; more than 28 million copies of the book... Part One CHAPTER I SCARLETT O'HARA was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarletontwins were.
-- Between the hounds and the horses and the twins there was a kinship deeper than that of their constantcompanionship.
-- Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves thanany one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.
-- You'reworse than the plagues of Egypt!'
-- And besides Scarlett don't setany more store by book learning than we do."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GREAT EXPECTATIONSChapter IMy father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
-- Chapter IIMy sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbors because she had brought me up "by hand."
-- I always treated him as a larger species of child, and as no more than my equal.
-- He turned it about in his mouth much longer than usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like a pill.
-- repeated my sister, more sharply than before.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, 'One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.'
-- However, I'm off now once for all: I like your cow now a great deal better than this smart beast that played me this trick, and has spoiled my best coat, you see, in this puddle; which, by the by, smells not very like a nosegay.
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