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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.
-- He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure.
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- Never any young adventurer's misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine.
-- The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner; and, as I had never been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in mind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son; but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods.
-- Had he married a more amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was: he might even have been made amiable himself; for he was very young when he married, and very fond of his wife.
-- No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants.
-- In seasons of cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
-- "He did not stipulate for any particular sum, my dear Fanny; he only requested me, in general terms, to assist them, and make their situation more comfortable than it was in his power to do.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter.
-- There was much more passing now than the mere words indicated.
-- She was now a thin, though rugged, woman of twenty- seven, with ideas of life coloured by her husband's, and fast hardening into narrower conceptions of pleasure and duty than had ever been hers in a thoroughly circumscribed youth.
-- She looked at the blue sky overhead with more realisation of its charm than had ever come to her before.
-- She had been used to better than that.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round more than a body could tell what to do with.
-- Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom boom boom twelve licks; and all still again stiller than ever.
-- This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that.
-- Niggers would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any nigger in that coun-try.
-- I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow's if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and ornery.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No sooner was it finished than it began to laugh and poke fun at him.
-- At that unexpected trick, Geppetto became very sad and downcast, more so than he had ever been before.
-- CHAPTER 4 The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, in which one sees that bad children do not like to be corrected by those who know more than they do.
-- "I am the Talking Cricket and I have been living in this room for more than one hundred years."
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