inferior是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 劣质的, 差的; 下级的; n. 地位低的人, 能力低的人，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the race of inferior Houyhnhnms, bred up to be servants, is not so strictly lim-ited upon this article: these are allowed to produce three of each sex, to be domestics in the noble families.
-- He added, how I had endeavoured to persuade him, that in my own and other countries, the Yahoos acted as the governing, rational animal, and held the Houyhnhnms in servitude; that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a little more civilized by some tincture of rea-son, which, however, was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race, as the Yahoos of their country were to me; that, among other things, I mentioned a custom we had of castrating Houyhnhnms when they were young, in or-der to render them tame; that the operation was easy and safe; that it was no shame to learn wisdom from brutes, as industry is taught by the ant, and building by the swallow 348 Gulliver's Travels(for so I translate the word lyhannh, although it be a much larger fowl); that this invention might be practised upon the younger Yahoos here, which besides rendering them tractable and fitter for use, would in an age put an end to the whole species, without destroying life; that in the mean time the Houyhnhnms should be exhorted to cultivate the breed of asses, which, as they are in all respects more valu-able brutes, so they have this advantage, to be fit for service at five years old, which the others are not till twelve.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an appropriate occasion for Mr. Bounderby to discuss the flavour of the hap'orth of stewed eels he had purchased in the streets at eight years old; and also of the inferior water, specially used for laying the dust, with which he had washed down that repast.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many portions of the cone consisted of inferior glaciers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the sleepy Sunday of his boyhood, when, like a military deserter, he was marched to chapel by a picquet of teachers three times a day, morally handcuffed to another boy; and when he would willingly have bartered two meals of indigestible sermon for another ounce or two of inferior mutton at his scanty dinner in the flesh.
-- Such being Henry's different position, the question is what is the most inferior class of marriage to which I can reconcile myself.'
-- For a gentleman who had this splendid work cut out for him, Mr Merdle looked a little common, and rather as if, in the course of his vast transactions, he had accidentally made an interchange of heads with some inferior spirit.
-- Also that I can accept no second or inferior position.
-- Then would the inferior Barnacles exclaim, obeying orders, 'Hear, Hear, Hear!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce.
-- At present he ranks simply as senior Harpooneer; and as such, is but one of the captain's more inferior subalterns.
-- In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.
-- And though all hands commonly disdained the capture of those inferior creatures; and though the Pequod was not commissioned to cruise for them at all, and though she had passed numbers of them near the Crozetts without lowering a boat; yet now that a Sperm Whale had been brought alongside and beheaded, to the surprise of all, the announcement was made that a Right Whale should be captured that day, if opportunity offered.
-- But before going further, it is important to mention here, that though the harpoon may be pitchpoled in the same way with the lance, yet it is seldom done; and when done, is still less frequently successful, on account of the greater weight and inferior length of the harpoon as compared with the lance, which in effect become serious drawbacks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity; on the arrival of which, he will be prepared to show, that a beadle properly constituted: that is to say, a parochial beadle, attached to a parochail workhouse, and attending in his official capacity the parochial church: is, in right and virtue of his office, possessed of all the excellences and best qualities of humanity; and that to none of those excellences, can mere companies' beadles, or court-of-law beadles, or even chapel-of-ease beadles (save the last, and they in a very lowly and inferior degree), lay the remotest sustainable claim.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank.
-- Georgiana's reception of them was very civil, but attended with all the embarrass-ment which, though proceeding from shyness and the fear of doing wrong, would easily give to those who felt them-selves inferior the belief of her being proud and reserved.
-- They were of course all intending to be surprised; but their astonishment was beyond their expectation; and on the part of Mrs. Bennet and Kitty, though she was perfectly unknown to them, even inferior to what Elizabeth felt.
-- While in their cradles, we planned the union: and now, at the moment when the wishes of both sisters would be ac-complished in their marriage, to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!Do you pay no regard to the wishes of his friends?
-- In anticipating the happiness of Bingley, which of course was to be inferior only to his own, he con-tinued the conversation till they reached the house.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That such hints and notices are given us I believe few that have made any observation of things can deny; that they are certain discoveries of an invisible world, and a converse of spirits, we cannot doubt; and if the tendency of them seems to be to warn us of dan-ger, why should we not suppose they are from some friendly agent (whether supreme, or inferior and subordinate, is not the question), and that they are given for our good?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love."
-- The youthful infatuation of nineteen would naturally blind him to every thing but her beauty and good nature; but the four succeeding years years, which if rationally spent, give such improvement to the understanding, must have opened his eyes to her defects of education, while the same period of time, spent on her side in inferior society and more frivolous pursuits, had perhaps robbed her of that simplicity which might once have given an interesting character to her beauty.
-- If in the supposition of his seeking to marry herself, his difficulties from his mother had seemed great, how much greater were they now likely to be, when the object of his engagement was undoubtedly inferior in connections, and probably inferior in fortune to herself.
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