usefulness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 用处， 有效性，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor had she, like many persons of great intellect, confined herself to theory, or stopped short where practical usefulness begins; inasmuch as she could ingross, fair-copy, fill up printed forms with perfect accuracy, and, in short, transact any ordinary duty of the office down to pouncing a skin of parchment or mending a pen.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Konstantin Levin the country was good first because it afforded a field for labor, of the usefulness of which there could be no doubt.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All night Leora and he sat up working themselves into enthusiasm about the freedom of the West, about the kind hearts and friendly hands of the pioneers, about the heroism and usefulness of country doctors, and this time they reached a decision which remained decided.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And really his anxiety to be of use in theinvestigations we have been making, and his real usefulness inextracting, and copying, and fetching, and carrying, have beenquite stimulating to us.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her first attempts at usefulness were in an endeavour to find out who were the parents, but Harriet could not tell.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had gone two or three miles in the moonlight, speaking desultorily across the wheel of her gig concerning the fair, farming, Oak's usefulness to them both, and other indifferent subjects, when Boldwood said suddenly and simply "Mrs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollec- 33tions of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Until matters weresettled, everyone referred to the organization as the Troop and, despite the high-sounding name finally adopted, theywere known to the end of their usefulness simply as "The Troop."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would entertain myself in forming and directing the minds of hopeful young men, by convincing them, from my own remem-brance, experience, and observation, fortified by numerous examples, of the usefulness of virtue in public and private life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is why it was, that, even as he sat before her on his sofa, in the brilliant light of a bright Italian day, the wonderful city without and the splendours of an old palace within, she saw him at the moment in the long-familiar gloom of his Marshalsea lodging, and wished to take her seat beside him, and comfort him, and be again full of confidence with him, and of usefulness to him.
-- Went down into a modest life of usefulness and happiness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To all this I joyously assented; for besides the affection I now felt for Queequeg, he was an experienced harpooneer, and as such, could not fail to be of great usefulness to one, who, like me, was wholly ignorant of the mysteries of whaling, though well acquainted with the sea, as known to merchant seamen.
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