grand是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最重大的, 豪华的; 傲慢的; 美妙的; 全部的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 145VII Monseigneur in Town onseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the MCourt, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris.
-- Monseigneur had been out at a little supper last night, where the Comedy and the Grand Opera were charmingly represented.
-- So polite and so impress-ible was Monseigneur, that the Comedy and the Grand Opera had far more influence with him in the tiresome ar-ticles of state affairs and state secrets, than the needs of all France.
-- But, the comfort was, that all the company at the grand hotel of Monseigneur were perfectly dressed.
-- He was driven on, and other carriages came whirling by in quick succession; the Minister, the State-Projector, the Farmer-General, the Doctor, the Lawyer, the Ecclesiastic, the Grand Opera, the Comedy, the whole Fancy Ball in a bright continuous flow, came whirling by.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last ingredient played a very prominent part in the salad; stale eggs and roasted cocks'-combs furnished the grand dish of the re-past; the wine even was not without a disgusting taste it was like a medicinal draught.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And not assisting the harassed young man she was dancing with in the conversation, the thread of which he had lost and could not pick up again, she obeyed with external liveliness the peremptory shouts of Korsunsky starting them all into the grand round, and then into the chaine, and at the same time she kept watch with a growing pang at her heart.
-- "Up comes the Grand Duchess with some ambassador or other, and, as ill-luck would have it, she begins talking to him about the new helmets.
-- The Grand Duchess positively wanted to show the new helmet to the ambassador.
-- "The Grand Duchess asked him to give her the helmet; he doesn't give it to her.
-- He pulls it from him, and hands it to the Grand Duchess.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The Grand Hotel."
-- Meet me Grand lobby tomorrow, twelve-thirty.
-- Did you just want to run away from Mama for a while and we have a bat at the Grand together?
-- For whatever infidelities he might ever commit he was adequately punished before they had reached the Grand Hotel.
-- The Grand was, in 1907, the best hotel in Zenith.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In the first place, because I can reason that I am one, and secondly, because for a month past I have been troubling benevolent Providence, calling it to witness that not for my own fleshly lusts did I undertake it, but with a grand and noble object ha-ha!Thirdly, because I aimed at carrying it out as justly as possible, weighing, measuring and calculating.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Firmness, I may observe, was the grand quality onwhich both Mr. and Miss Murdstone took their stand.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this age of literature, such collections on a very grand scale are not uncommon.
-- This is like giv-ing ourselves a slap, to be sure!and it was but yesterday I was telling Mr. Cole, I really was ashamed to look at our new grand pianoforte in the drawing-room, while I do not know one note from another, and our little girls, who are but just beginning, perhaps may never make any thing of it; and there is poor Jane Fairfax, who is mistress of mu-sic, has not any thing of the nature of an instrument, not even the pitifullest old spinet in the world, to amuse herself with. I was saying this to Mr. Cole but yesterday, and he quite agreed with me; only he is so particularly fond of mu-sic that he could not help indulging himself in the purchase, hoping that some of our good neighbours might be so oblig-ing occasionally to put it to a better use than we can; and that really is the reason why the instrument was bought or else I am sure we ought to be ashamed of it. We are in great hopes that Miss Woodhouse may be prevailed with to try it this evening.'
-- 'That is a grand pianoforte, and he might think it too large for Mrs. Bates's house.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba knew more of him now; he had entirely bared his heart before her, even until he had almost worn in her eyes the sorry look of a grand bird without the feathers that make it grand.
-- And I went to grand churches and chapels.
-- We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man; but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek.
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