Siamese cats are rather like dogs in some ways.
暹罗猫在某些方面长得有点儿像狗。
The weather was rather worse than I had expected
天气要比我预料的还坏。
rather a可以与一些名词连用,如disappiontment,disadvan-tage,nuisance,pity,shame及joke:
Its rather a nuisance that we cant park here.
真讨厌,我们不能在这里停车。(有点不方便)
Its rather a shame that he has to work on Sundays.
真讨厌,他连星期天也得去上班。(有点不公平)
fairly则不能这样用。
C rather可以用在某些褒义的形容词和副词之前,如amusing,clever,good,pretty,well等,但其含义变了。这时它几乎相当于very之意,没有贬义,如She is rather clever(她很聪明)。
这句含义相当于She is very clever。rather这样用时显然具有比fairly更深的褒义,如It is a fairly good play(这个戏还算可以)。这一说法会起到劝阻旁人去看戏的作用。但如果说It israther a good play(这个戏很好)则无疑是一种推荐。有时rather这样用时含有惊讶之意:
I suppose the house was filthy.
No,as a matter of fact it was rather clean.
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