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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Verne has perhaps had a larger share than any other single individual in causing the ever-increasing yearly tide of international travel.
-- The fish was still breathing; it measured ten feet in length, and weighed more than six hundred pounds.
-- "No doubt you would," said Lady Helena; "but the contents are more valuable than the bottle, and we had better sacrifice the one than the other."
-- The second piece of paper was even more destroyed than the first; only a few scattered words remained here and there.
-- But before starting he confided an important missive to a swifter agent than himself, and a few minutes afterward it flashed along the electric wire to London, to appear next day in the Times and Morning Chronicle in the following words: "For information respecting the fate of the three-mast vessel BRITANNIA, of Glasgow, Captain Grant, apply to Lord Glenarvan, Malcolm Castle, Luss, Dumbartonshire, Scotland."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would suggest, for example, that a presentation to a doc-tor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials 'C.C.'
-- 'I think that we might venture a little farther than this.
-- If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician little more than a senior student.
-- So your grave, middle-aged family prac-titioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.'
-- And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.
-- Replying to them, he made known to the inquirer that he certainly had been long absent from Russia, more than four years; that he had been sent abroad for his health; that he had suffered from some strange nervous malady a kind of epilepsy, with convulsive spasms.
-- His interlocutor burst out laugh-ing several times at his answers; and more than ever, when to the question, ' whether he had been cured?'
-- asked the prince, looking at the millionaire with considerable curiosity But though there may have been something remarkable in the fact that this man was heir to millions of roubles there was something about him which surprised and interested the prince more than that.
-- but no one ever gets any further than that, for there is nothing more to say.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have set my heart on keep-ing her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments.
-- I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me.'
-- Then uprose smooth-tongued Nestor, the facile speak-er of the Pylians, and the words fell from his lips sweeter than honey.
-- I am older than either of you; therefore be guided by me.
-- Moreover I have been the familiar friend of men even greater than you are, and they did not disregard my coun-sels.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He staggered into the "Coach and Horses" more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down.
-- She put down the eggs and bacon with considerable emphasis, and called rather than said to him, "Your lunch is served, sir."
-- "And they goggles!Why, he looked more like a divin' helmet than a human man!"
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No sooner said than done.
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