英汉词典

rather 基本解释

• adv. 宁可，宁愿；相当
• int. 当然啦（回答问题时用）
• n. (Rather)人名；(英)拉瑟

rather 中文词源

来自 rathe,早的，急切的，-er,比较级后缀。即更早的，更快的，引申副词词义相当，颇，相 较。

rather 英文词源

rather

rather: [OE] Rather originated as the comparative form of the now obsolete adjective rathe ‘quick’, and so to begin with meant ‘more quickly’, hence ‘earlier, sooner’. Its most frequent modern meaning, ‘more willingly’, emerged as recently as the 16th century. Rathe itself went back to a prehistoric Germanic *khrathaz, which may have been derived from the same base as produced English rash ‘impetuous’.
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rather (adv.)

Old English hraþor "more quickly, earlier, sooner," also "more readily," comparative of hraþe, hræþe "quickly, hastily, promptly, readily, immediately," which is related to hræð "quick, nimble, prompt, ready," from Proto-Germanic *khratha- (cognates: Old Norse hraðr, Old High German hrad), from PIE *kret- "to shake." The base form rathe was obsolete by 18c. except in poetry (Tennyson); superlative rathest fell from use by 17c. Meaning "more willingly" is recorded from c. 1300; sense of "more truly" is attested from late 14c.

The rather lambes bene starved with cold
[Spenser, "The Shepheardes Calender" (Februarie), 1579]

rather 词组搭配

rather 英文释义

1. on the contrary;

"rather than disappoint the children, he did two quick tricks before he left"

"he didn't call; rather (or instead), he wrote her a letter"

"used English terms instead of Latin ones"

2. to some (great or small) extent;

"it was rather cold"

"the party was rather nice"

"the knife is rather dull"

"I rather regret that I cannot attend"

"He's rather good at playing the cello"

"he is kind of shy"

3. more readily or willingly;

"clean it well, preferably with warm water"

"I'd rather be in Philadelphia"

"I'd sooner die than give up"

4. to a degree (not used with a negative);

"quite tasty"

"quite soon"

"quite ill"

"quite rich"

rather 同义词解析

fairly, pretty, quite, rather

这些程度副词都有"相当，颇"之意。

fairly： 语意最弱，多用于褒义，表示适度地、尚可的意思。不可与too或比较级连用。

pretty： 用法与rather相似。常用于非正式文体。

quite含义比fairly稍强，与不定冠词连用时，一般放在不定冠词之前。

rather语气比quite强，褒意贬意无可使用。可与too和比较级连用。

rather 双语例句

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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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5. I had a busy day and was rather tired.

今天很忙，我累坏了。

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rather 实用场景例句

The instructions were rather complicated.

这些说明相当复杂。

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She fell and hurt her leg rather badly.

她跌倒了，腿伤得相当重。

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I didn't fail the exam; in fact I did rather well!

我没有考不及格，事实上，我考得不错！

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It was a rather difficult question.

这是个相当难的问题。

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It was rather a difficult question.

这真是个难题。

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He looks rather like his father.

他看上去很像他的父亲。

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The patient has responded to the treatment rather better than expected.

病人对治疗的反应比预想的好得多。

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He was conscious that he was talking rather too much.

他意识到他说得实在太多了。

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I rather suspect we're making a mistake.

我有点儿怀疑我们正在犯错误。

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We were rather hoping you'd be able to do it by Friday.

我们希望你最好能在星期五之前做这件事。

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She worked as a secretary, or rather, a personal assistant.

她当了秘书；确切地讲，是私人助理。

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In the end he had to walk─or rather run─to the office.

最后他不得不走着——应该说是跑着——去办公室。

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The walls were not white, but rather a sort of dirty grey.

墙面不是白的，而是灰不溜秋的。

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‘I'm going climbing tomorrow. ’ ‘Rather you than me! ’

“我明天去爬山。”“你去吧，我可不去！”

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I think I'll have a cold drink rather than coffee.

我想要冷饮，不要咖啡。

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Why didn't you ask for help, rather than trying to do it on your own?

你干吗非得自己干，而不请人帮忙？

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She'd rather die than give a speech.

她宁愿死也不愿意演讲。

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‘Do you want to come with us? ’ ‘No, I'd rather not. ’

“你想跟我们一起来吗？”“不，我不想去。”

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Would you rather walk or take the bus?

你愿意步行还是坐公共汽车？

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The problem was psychological rather than physiological...

问题是心理方面的而不是生理方面的。

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Sedge is similar in appearance to grass but has a solid rather than a hollow stem...

莎草看上去和普通的草没什么两样，但其草茎是实芯的而不是空芯的。

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Twenty million years ago, Idaho was not the arid place it is now. Rather, it was warm and damp, populated by dense primordial forest...

2,000万年前，爱达荷州并不像现在这样干旱。相反，那时的爱达荷州温暖潮湿，有大片的原始森林。

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But there must be no talk of final victory; rather, the long, hard slog to a solution...

但是这还谈不上是最后的胜利；而是长期、艰难地寻找解决方法的过程。

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If it's all the same to you, I'd rather work at home...

如果对你来说没什么差别，我宁愿在家中工作。

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Which programme would you rather appear on?...

你更愿意在哪个节目中露面？

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I grew up in rather unusual circumstances...

我在非同寻常的环境下长大。

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It had made some rather bad mistakes which I thought should be corrected...

它犯了一些相当严重的错误，我觉得应该加以纠正。

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I rather think he was telling the truth...

我倒觉得他讲的是真话。

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I rather like the decorative effect.

我倒很喜欢装饰的效果。

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'Well, he did have a sort of family connection with it, didn't he.' — 'Oh yes. Rather.'

“那么，他的确和它有些家族渊源，是不是？”——“噢，是的，的确如此。”

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