superiority是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 优越(性) ， 优势， 优等； 高傲， 傲慢，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thrown out of his honourable employment in England, through too much unsuccessful hard swearing there not because he was not wanted there; our English reasons for vaunting our superiority to secrecy and spies are of very modern date he knew that he had crossed the Channel, and accepted service in France: first, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among his own countrymen there: gradually, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among the natives.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excuse me a minute..." A secretary came in, with respectful familiarity and the modest consciousness, characteristic of every secretary, of superiority to his chief in the knowledge of their business; he went up to Oblonsky with some papers, and began, under pretense of asking a question, to explain some objection.
-- Then the colonel, who began to show signs of feebleness, sat down on a bench in the courtyard and began demonstrating to Yashvin the superiority of Russia over Poland, especially in cavalry attack, and there was a lull in the revelry for a moment.
-- Stiva says the whole aim of her existence is to prove her superiority over Auntie Katerina Pavlovna: that's all true; but she's a good-natured woman, and I am so grateful to her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter, without a word, made a rush for him, grasped him by the throat, and, much to the amusement of a group of Americans, who immediately began to bet on him, administered to the detective a perfect volley of blows, which proved the great superiority of French over English pugilistic skill.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For all his fancied superiority to the class, Martin was illimitably ignorant of literature, of painting, of music.
-- For he doubted all progress of the intellect and the emotions, and he doubted, most of all, the superiority of divine mankind to the cheerful dogs, the infallibly graceful cats, the unmoral and unagitated and irreligious horses, the superbly adventuring seagulls.
-- The examining-chair was of doubtful superiority to that once used by Doc Vickerson of Elk Mills, and sterilizing was apparently done in a wash-bowl, but in a corner was an electric therapeutic cabinet with more electrodes and pads than Martin had ever seen.
-- As he drove back he raged at Hesselink's superiority about not feeling superior, but he stumbled into uncomfortable meditation.
-- Not till then did Martin completely realize that he was leaving Wheatsylvania--the tedium of Bert Tozer's nagging--the spying of Pete Yeska and the Norbloms--the inevitability of turning, as so many unchanging times he had turned, south from the Leopolis road at the Two Mile Grove and following again that weary, flat, unbending trail--the superiority of Dr. Hesselink and the malice of Dr. Coughlin--the round which left him no time for his dusty laboratory--leaving it all for the achievement and splendor of the great city of Nautilus.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now mother and she have taken it into their heads that she can put up with Mr. Luzhin, who propounds the theory of the superiority of wives raised from destitution and owing everything to their husband's bounty who propounds it, too, almost at the first interview.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Itwas not that he had lost his good looks, or his old bearing of agentlemanfor that he had not- but the thing that struck me most 477was, that with the evidences of his native superiority still uponhim, he should submit himself to that crawling impersonation ofmeanness, Uriah Heep.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect.
-- She had no sense of superiority then.
-- Mr. Elton's superiority had very ample acknowledgment.
-- And besides the operation of this, as a general principle, you may be sure that Miss Fairfax awes Mrs. Elton by her superiority both of mind and man-ner; and that, face to face, Mrs. Elton treats her with all the respect which she has a claim to.
-- 'Oh!Miss Woodhouse, believe me I have not the pre-sumption to suppose Indeed I am not so mad. But it is a pleasure to me to admire him at a distance and to think of his infinite superiority to all the rest of the world, with the gratitude, wonder, and veneration, which are so proper, in me especially.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GABRIEL'S RESOLVE THE VISIT THE MISTAKEThe only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man.
-- In the crowd was an athletic young fellow of somewhat superior appearance to the rest in fact, his superiority was marked enough to lead several ruddy peasants standing by to speak to him inquiringly, as to a farmer, and to use "Sir" as a finishing word.
-- Troy's course is not by any means downward; and his superiority is a proof of his worth!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The air of completeness and superiority with which she walked at my side, and the air of youthfulness and submission with which I walked at hers, made a contrast that I strongly felt.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The illuminating power in this subterranean region, from its trembling and Rickering character, its clear dry whiteness, the very slight elevation of its temperature, its great superiority to that of the moon, was evidently electric; something in the nature of the aurora borealis, only that its phenomena were constant, and able to light up the whole of the ocean cavern.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His curious sense of a general superiority to Daniel Doyce, which seemed to be founded, not so much on anything in Doyce's personal character as on the mere fact of his being an originator and a man out of the beaten track of other men, suggested the idea.
-- She was pretty, and conscious, and rather flaunting; and the condescension with which she put aside the superiority of her charms, and of her worldly experience, and addressed her sister on almost equal terms, had a vast deal of the family in it.
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