doubtful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 怀疑的, 有疑问的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed doubtful whether she would go about without further damage.
-- Robert and Paganel had not been restored to them, but their fate was no doubtful matter.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lizabetha Prokofievna saw that she returned in such a state of agitation that it was doubtful whether she had even heard their calls.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such children as saw him at nightfall dreamt of bogies, and it seemed doubtful whether he disliked boys more than they disliked him, or the reverse; but there was certainly a vivid enough dislike on either side.
-- She was a little doubtful and tried to peer past me into the room; strange enough to her no doubt bare walls, uncurtained windows, truckle- bed, with the gas engine vibrating, and the seethe of the radiant points, and that faint ghastly stinging of chloroform in the air.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I rubbed my eyes and lay listening to the noise, doubtful for a little while of my whereabouts.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding a constant application of his one armed heel to the flanks of the mare, the most confirmed gait that he could establish was a Canterbury gallop with the hind legs, in which those more forward assisted for doubtful mo-ments, though generally content to maintain a loping trot.
-- he asked, as though no longer doubtful of the good intelligence established be-tween them; 'and will not the chief of William Henry be better pleased to see his daughters before another night may have hardened his heart to their loss, to make him less lib-eral in his reward?'
-- This expectation was is no degree diminished, when, by the doubtful twilight, he beheld twenty or thirty forms rising alternately from the cover of the tall, coarse grass, in front of the lodges, and then sinking again from the sight, as it were to burrow in the earth.
-- The Indian paused, as if doubtful whether to proceed, and permitted his companion to approach his side.
-- But plans so dangerous to attempt, and of such doubtful issue, Magua found little difficulty in defeat-ing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' replied the child, doubtful whether she ought to hold any communication with the supposed culprit, but inclining to her old favourite still; 'what do you want?'
-- It is not uncommon for people who are much better fed and taught than Christopher Nubbles had ever been, to make duties of their inclinations in matters of more doubtful propriety, and to take great credit for the self-denial with which they gratify themselves.
-- It was nearly five o'clock in the afternoon, when drawing near another cluster of labourers' huts, the child looked wistfully in each, doubtful at which to ask for permission to rest awhile, and buy a draught of milk.
-- When they had all passed, and the sound of their footsteps had died away, one of them returned, and after a little hesitation and rustling in the passage, as if he were doubtful what door to knock at, knocked at hers.
-- And he might have thought much more, being in a doubtful and hesitating mood, but that the girl again urged her request, and certain mysterious bumping sounds on the passage and staircase seemed to give note of the applicant's impatience.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He recalled with disgust her beautiful shoulders and arms; and her coarse, brutal father, with his dark past, his cruelties, and her mother with her doubtful reputation.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even he, perhaps, had been doubtful as to the crew, but that is only guess, for as you shall hear, we had not long the benefit of his opinion.
-- Hunter was steady, that we knew; Joyce was a doubtful case a pleasant, polite man for a valet and to brush one's clothes, but not entirely fitted for a man of war.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under ordinary conditions these observations are made by means of rather complicated instruments, and with somewhat doubtful results, by means of thermometrical sounding-leads, the glasses often breaking under the pressure of the water, or an apparatus grounded on the variations of the resistance of metals to the electric currents.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Things she knew perfectly well, at one moment, seemed to become doubtful the next.
-- He seemed doubtful now.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had another boat on board, but how to get her off into the sea was a doubtful thing.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nay, the longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard; and sometimes, for a few painful minutes, she believed it to be no more than friendship.
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