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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some time past vessels had been met by "an enormous thing," a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
-- Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.
-- But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an interval of three days, the Governor Higginson and the Columbus had observed it at two different points of the chart, separated by a distance of more than seven hundred nautical leagues.
-- In these simultaneous observations they thought themselves justified in estimating the minimum length of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it, though they measured three hundred feet over all.
-- The Scotia had not struck, but she had been struck, and seemingly by something rather sharp and penetrating than blunt.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well," she said, ironically, "it usually means one thing!But don't you think anyhow, you'd be " she darkened slightly "in a better position than you are in now."
-- But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe.
-- Even in that he seemed to belong to her, rather than to the rest of the company; though, he thought to himself, he was always well washed, at any rate at the neck and ears.
-- "Not many people are anything at all," he answered, forced to go deeper than he wanted to.
-- "Mother," called Diana, a handsome girl a little older than Winifred, "I may have wine, mayn't I?"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The 'walk in' was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, 'Go to the Deuce:' even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathising movement to the words; and I think that circumstance determined me to accept the invitation: I felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.
-- Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar steps with vexatious phlegm: I don't think they moved one second faster than usual, though the hearth was an absolute tempest of worrying and yelping.
-- 'The herd of possessed swine could have had no worse spirits in them than those animals of yours, sir.
-- They are not mine,' said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied.
-- This was worse than before: the youth grew crimson, and clenched his fist, with every appearance of a meditated assault.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or let me see suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once!Well, I shouldn't mind that much!I'd far rather go without them than eat them!
-- So Alice picked him up very gently, and lifted him across more slowly than she had lifted the Queen, that she mightn't take his breath away: but, before she put him on the table, she thought she might as well dust him a little, he was so covered with ashes.
-- But how curiously it twists!It's more like a corkscrew than a path!Well, this turn goes to the hill, I suppose no, it doesn't!This goes straight back to the house!Well then, I'll try it the other way.'
-- Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though I was so terrified by the idea of the seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid of the captain himself than anybody else who knew him.
-- There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head would carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked, old, wild sea-songs, minding nobody; but sometimes he would call for glasses round and force all the trembling company to listen to his stories or bear a chorus to his singing.
-- Often I have heard the house shaking with "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum," all the neighbours joining in for dear life, with the fear of death upon them, and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark.
-- The captain had risen earlier than usual and set out down the beach, his cutlass swinging under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, his brass telescope under his arm, his hat tilted back upon his head.
-- "No more wounded than you or I.
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