comparatively是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adv. 比较地,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:
-- When night came they camped at the foot of some eucalyptus, which bore marks of a comparatively recent fire.
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:
-- Though Sir Charles had resided at Basker-ville Hall for a comparatively short period his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I won't swear to this being the exact figure, but anyhow they have become comparatively rare.'
-- 'Comparatively to what?'
-- His colossal fortune, with the exception of the comparatively small portion wasted in the first wanton period of his inheritance, went to his broth-er, to the great satisfaction of the latter.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She's comparatively young, and she's not unattractive.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But they felt that it was comparatively flat, for the wind passed completely over them, without being driven back as it was when it came in contact with the cliff.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Ask me not,' said Flora, 'if I love him still or if he still loves me or what the end is to be or when, we are surrounded by watchful eyes and it may be that we are destined to pine asunder it may be never more to be reunited not a word not a breath not a look to betray us all must be secret as the tomb wonder not therefore that even if I should seem comparatively cold to Arthur or Arthur should seem comparatively cold to me we have fatal reasons it is enough if we understand them hush!'
-- 'But you are aware, my dear madam,' said Mr Dorrit, 'that my daughters had the misfortune to lose their lamented mother when they were very young; and that, in consequence of my not having been until lately the recognised heir to my property, they have lived with me as a comparatively poor, though always proud, gentleman, in ha hum retirement!'
-- 'The daughter of a gentleman, though ha himself at one time comparatively far from affluent comparatively and herself reared in hum retirement, need not of necessity find this position so very novel.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused through so broad, baronial, and superb a person.
-- Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of the chase, for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt above all for Captain Ahab to be supplied with five extra men, as that same boat's crew, he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads of the owners of the Pequod.
-- It was introduced by an old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival of Learning; and in those days, and even down to a comparatively late period, dolphins were popularly supposed to be a species of the Leviathan.
-- Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge, humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as by the unusual yellowish incrustations overgrowing him, seemed afflicted with the jaundice, or some other infirmity.
-- They are comparatively delicate, indeed; I dare say, not to exceed half a dozen yards round the waist.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was anxious to avoid the notice of his cousins, from a conviction that if they saw him depart, they could not fail to conjecture his design, and he was not willing to have the attempt known till its success might be known likewise; for though feeling almost secure, and with reason, for Char- lotte had been tolerably encouraging, he was comparatively diffident since the adventure of Wednesday.
-- Elizabeth had heard soon after her arrival that Mr. Darcy was expected there in the course of a few weeks, and though there were not many of her acquaintances whom she did not prefer, his coming would furnish one comparatively new to look at in their Rosings parties, and she might be amused in seeing how hopeless Miss Bingley's designs on him were, by his behaviour to his cousin, for whom he was evidently des-tined by Lady Catherine, who talked of his coming with the greatest satisfaction, spoke of him in terms of the highest admiration, and seemed almost angry to find that he had already been frequently seen by Miss Lucas and herself.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You decide on his imperfections so much in the mass," replied Elinor, "and so much on the strength of your own imagination, that the commendation I am able to give of him is comparatively cold and insipid.
-- She could not but smile to see the graciousness of both mother and daughter towards the very person for Lucy was particularly distinguished whom of all others, had they known as much as she did, they would have been most anxious to mortify; while she herself, who had comparatively no power to wound them, sat pointedly slighted by both.
-- "I will tell her all that is necessary to what may comparatively be called, your justification.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At this time of year the days are still comparatively short, and the shadows of the evening were beginning to settle down upon the great city.
-- She had seen comparatively little of the manager during the winter, but had been kept constantly in mind of him by one thing and another, principally by the strong impression he had made.
-- Instead, a comparatively large and commodious chamber with conveniences not enjoyed by the small fry overhead.
-- There were old men with grizzled beards and sunken eyes, men who were comparatively young but shrunken by diseases, men who were middle-aged.
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