1、用作副词:很,颇,在很大程度上为大家精心整理了rather的用法【最新2篇】,如果对您有一些参考与帮助,请分享给最好的朋友。
rather的用法1:rather是程度副词,用来修饰原级或比较级形容词和副词、动词、分词或单数名词,意思是“有些”“相当”“多少地”,常用于负面含意。rather可和too连用,作程度状语,但此时不可以修饰比较级。
rather的用法2:rather用以减弱而不是加强其后所跟的词或词组的作用,如拒绝别人请求帮助时,显得比较客气,又如为了谦虚,可用这词使自己在引人注目的场面表现得乐而不狂。
rather的用法3:rather一般放在不定冠词前面,名词前有形容词时,也可放在不定冠词后面。
rather的用法4:rather than和more.。.than的比较:前者表示“与其……倒不如……”,后者表示“更……比起……”,注意词组more.。.than中的than前面不可以加上rather。
1、 Rather taken aback by such forwardness, I slammed down the phone.
如此无礼的言语让我火冒三丈,我砰的一下把电话挂了。
2、 The process is not a circle but rather a spiral.
这个过程不是一个圆周运动而是螺旋上升型的。
3、 I gradually got rather disillusioned with the whole setup of the university.
渐渐地,我对大学的整个体制感到相当失望。
4、 She was in rather a bad film about the Mau Mau.
她出演了一部关于茅茅运动(20世纪50年代肯尼亚基库尤人反抗英国殖民者的民族主义运动)的烂片。
5、 I had a busy day and was rather tired.
今天很忙,我累坏了。
6、 Circumstances dictated that they played a defensive rather than attacking game.
比赛形势决定了他们要打防守战而不是进攻战。
7、 She had married a charming but rather vague Engl☆☆ishman.
她嫁给了一个外表迷人实际却很迷糊的英国人。
8、 In its untreated state the carbon fibre material is rather like cloth.
原始的碳纤维材料很像布料。
9、 Poor Jane was in rather a spin about the party.
可怜的简对这次聚会真有些不知所措。
10、 The police inferred that they found her behaviour rather suspicious.
警方暗示他们发现她行为非常可疑。
11、 I found her a rather austere, distant, somewhat cold person.
我发现她相当严厉,拒人于千里之外,近乎冷漠。
12、 "Frankly I found it rather frightening." — "A little startling," Mark agreed.
“坦白说我觉得这相当可怕。”——“是有点吓人,”马克表示同意。
13、 A rather neat option allows you to design your own fiendish puzzle.
只要干净利落地做一个选择,你就能自己设计出难以解开的谜题。
14、 The effect is soft and pretty rather than drop-dead sexy.
给人的印象是柔和俏丽而不是吸人眼球的性感。
15、 It was extremely hot and I was feeling rather randy.
场面非常刺激撩人,我感到欲火难耐。