| 词汇 | more |
| 词源 | more. “Lots were cast who should walk up to the master after supper that evening and ask for more [gruel] and it fell to Oliver Twist. Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger [and] he rose from the table . . . advancing to the master: ‘Please, sir, I want some more.’ The master aimed a blow at Oliver’s head with the ladle . . . ‘Oliver Twist has asked for more!’ ” One of the great scenes from Dickens’s Oliver Twist (1837– 38) and the best use of more in the language. |
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