Than
[ðæn;ð(ə)n] or [ðæn]
解釋/意思:
(conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.
(adv.) Then. See Then.
校對:罗赞
解釋/意思:
conj. when as if compared with—a word placed after the comparative of an adjective or adverb between the things compared.
錄入:朱莉
例句/造句/用法:
- He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They are purging more than the epsom salts in this epoch. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Father's a sweeter singer than ever; you'd never have forgotten it, if you'd aheard him just now. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Nothing, he said, can be more just than such a description of him. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Better than he thought,--except the last clause. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- They mostly began to reign as old men, and their reigns were short, averaging less than two years each. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They are a smaller horde than the Tharks but much more ferocious. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- There is more in it than thou dost guess, Conrade; thy simplicity is no match for this deep abyss of wickedness. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You never noticed it, any more than you noticed me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Women are certainly quicker in some things than men. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The vestry was larger than I should have supposed it to be, judging from the outside only. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He perhaps knows more of Mr. Rochester than you do. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands, said Mrs. March decidedly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And Gerald would be freer, more dauntless than Bismarck. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mrs. Bulstrode did not wish to go nearer to the facts than in the phrase make some amends; knowing that her husband must understand her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They are worse than a goring, for the injury is internal and it does not heal. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- King George III, who had begun his reign in 1760, was resolved to be much more of a king than his two German predecessors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- No, it is not selfishness or conceit, said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Love covers a multitude of sins, and of whom could you ask more freely than of him? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I suppose it's smarter to use these rocks and build a good blind for this gun than to make a proper emplacement for it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But in 1562, the year at which he ends with it, it contained no more than the same nominal sum does at present. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I beg you will not do anything of the kind, Tertius, said Rosamond, looking at him with something more marked than usual in her speech. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He had done worse than listen, as I privately thought to myself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Nothing could be more precise, exact, and orderly than Greenleaf. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- This expense, however, it must be acknowledged, is more moderate in Great Britain than in most other countries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
錄入:朱莉