more是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 更多的n. 更多的人(或东西) ad. 更, 更多,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:
-- This may be said to be a defect in an individual if he depends for his valuation more upon his appearance than upon his capacity to wear well, which Oak did not.
-- Gabriel had not beheld the sight for more than half a minute, when the vehicle was brought to a standstill just beneath his eyes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The comparison holds good!Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts?
-- Nothing can be more depressing than the sight of that sitting-room.
-- In a corner stands a box containing a set of numbered pigeon-holes, in which the lodgers' table napkins, more or less soiled and stained with wine, are kept.
-- You can no more imagine the one without the other, than you can think of a jail without a turnkey.
-- Such prices as these are confined to the Faubourg Saint-Marcel and the district between La Bourbe and the Salpetriere; and, as might be expected, poverty, more or less apparent, weighed upon them all, Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Inspir-ited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid.
-- 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.
-- It is true that I have thought more and that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) *keeping*; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.
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.
-- The more sedate andolder sections of the South looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north Georgia, a lack ofthe niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered.
-- 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.
-- And we had lots more things to tell her."
-- 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.
-- I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.
-- 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.
-- I felt that I must have something in reserve for my dreadful acquaintance, and his ally the still more dreadful young man.
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.'
-- So he set out once more on his journey, sighing, and in great despair, when on a sudden his friend the fox met him, and said, 'You see now what has happened on account of your not listening to my counsel.
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