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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The more of those terrible creatures that are killed the better, at all events," said John Mangles, "so let's seize the chance, and it will not only give us a little diversion, but be doing a good action."
-- In a few minutes more he was hoisted up over the side of the yacht and thrown on the deck.
-- The fish was still breathing; it measured ten feet in length, and weighed more than six hundred pounds.
-- "It's just a bottle, neither more nor less, that the fellow has got in his inside, and couldn't digest," said another of the crew.
-- "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."
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.'
-- 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.
-- 'I think, Dr. Mortimer, you would do wisely if without more ado you would kindly tell me plainly what the exact nature of the problem is in which you demand my assistance.'
-- 'But I understand that it is something more modern and practical upon which you wish to consult me?'
-- 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:
-- So be it also with yourselves, for this is the more excellent way.
-- You are strong, and have a goddess for your mother; but Agamemnon is stronger than you, for he has more people under him.
-- Think that the Achaeans and Trojans have sworn to a solemn covenant, and that they have each been numbered the Trojans by the roll of their householders, and we by companies of ten; think further that each of our companies desired to have a Trojan householder to pour out their wine; we are so greatly more in number that full many a company would have to go without its cup-bearer.
-- 'Agamemnon,' he cried, 'what ails you now, and what more do you want?
-- Would you have yet more gold, which some Trojan is to give you as a ransom for his son, when I or another Achaean has taken him prisoner?
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 on some more coal, unfolded the clothes-horse, and extended the traveller's coat upon this.
-- "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:
-- 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.
扩展阅读: