somewhat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 有点儿，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Too rul loo rul Too rul loo rul--still, in my desire to be wiser, I got this composition by heart with the utmost gravity; nor do I recollect that I questioned its merit, except that I thought (as I still do) the amount of Too rul somewhat in excess of the poetry.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three 16 Gulliver's Travelswho attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on each side to support him.
-- Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been car-ried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller ves-sels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and 53soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
-- As the common size of the natives is somewhat un-der six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several grada-tions downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.
-- hree days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to Tthe north- east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.
-- These considerations moved me to hasten my depar-ture somewhat sooner than I intended; to which the court, impatient to have me gone, very readily contributed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ceremony concluded to the satisfaction of all parties, we all sat down to table, that is twenty-four of us, somewhat crowded.
-- Hans had brought us along with fidelity and intelligence, and I began to feel somewhat more comfortable when I reflected that he was to accompany us still farther on our way.
-- "I heartily agree with you, my dear uncle," was my somewhat hopeful rejoinder.
-- My readers must excuse this brief and somewhat pedantic geological lecture.
-- This went on until seventeen minutes past twelve, the precise instant at which we rejoined Hans, who, having been somewhat in advance, had suddenly stopped.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The physical desire he did not satisfy in her; he was always come and fin-ished so quickly, then shrinking down on her breast, and recovering somewhat his effrontery while she lay dazed, disappointed, lost.
-- And he soon became rather superb, somewhat lordly with the nurse.
-- It showed a clean-shaven, alert, very young-looking man in a rather high collar, and a somewhat plump, bold young woman with hair fluffed out and crimped, and wearing a dark satin blouse.
-- Unable to evict the somewhat man-handled Venus from his couch, he beat a retreat and retired, it is said, to his mother's house in Tever-shall.
-- She was somewhat surprised to find that she was afraid of Clifford.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he saw, also, that Mrs Plornish was a young woman, made somewhat slatternly in herself and her belongings by poverty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles.
-- Her sister he considered somewhat vain and proud, but a young lady of infinite accomplishments, who could not forget the past.
-- He did not shine in company; he had not very much to say for himself; he was a reserved man, with a broad, overhanging, watchful head, that particular kind of dull red colour in his cheeks which is rather stale than fresh, and a somewhat uneasy expression about his coat-cuffs, as if they were in his confidence, and had reasons for being anxious to hide his hands.
-- As Mr Pancks was somewhat noisily getting his steam up for departure, he concluded by asking that gentleman if he would walk with him?
-- Little Dorrit looked, and perhaps not altogether without cause, somewhat at a loss to understand this fine distinction.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hannah washed and ironed them for me, and I marked them all my-self,' said Beth, looking proudly at the somewhat uneven letters which had cost her such labor.
-- 'Yes, my dear, I have a great many, all mothers do, but mine differ somewhat from Mrs. Moffat's, I suspect.
-- The girls listened with interest, for the tale was ro-mantic, and somewhat pathetic, as most of the characters died in the end.
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