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rather的用法大全：

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。

rather的用法例句：

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 Englishman.

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。