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《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 broken place in the iron plates was so perfectly defined that it could not have been more neatly done by a punch.
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:
-- They were chiefly women, colliers' wives of the more shiftless sort.
-- And then, a moment after, she was saying assuredly, "I shall know more of that man."
-- The more she strove to bring him to her, the more he battled her back.
-- Her father, mute and yellowish, his black beard making him look more careworn, mounted the steps stiffly, as if his spirit were absent; but the laughing mist of the bride went along with him undiminished.
-- The two men were gone, there was nothing more to see, for the time.
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.
-- Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more despatch: a lusty dame, with tucked up gown, bare arms, and fire flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying pan: and used that weapon, and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a high wind, when her master entered on the scene.
-- They are not mine,' said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied.
-- The dis mal spiritual atmosphere overcame, and more than neutralised, the glowing physical comforts round me; and I resolved to be cautious how I ventured under those rafters a third time.
-- Do point out some landmarks by which I may know my way home: I have no more idea how to get there than you would have how to get to London!
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:
-- she went on, talking more to herself than the kitten.
-- 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:
-- My father told him no, very little company, the more was the pity.
-- 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.
-- returned the other, getting more at his ease.
-- "No more wounded than you or I.
-- He was growing more and more excited, and this alarmed me for my father, who was very low that day and needed quiet; besides, I was reassured by the doctor's words, now quoted to me, and rather offended by the offer of a bribe.
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