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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The one feat alone that of dying by which a mean condition could be resolved into a grand one, Fanny had achieved.
-- "I think 'twas because two men came just then from Casterbridge and began putting up a grand carved tombstone," said Liddy.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and again there are tragedies so awful and so grand by reason of the complication of virtues and vices that bring them about, that egotism and selfishness are forced to pause and are moved to pity; but the impression that they receive is like a luscious fruit, soon consumed.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day.
-- This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.
-- The grand jury rejected the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fortnight after my removal I was liberated from prison.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The big brute he's a grand horse, Scarlett; you must tell your pa to comeover and see him right away he'd already bitten a hunk out of his groom on the way down here and he'd trampledtwo of Ma's darkies who met the train at Jonesboro.
-- You know Mother said if we got expelledfrom another college we couldn't have our Grand Tour."
-- But since that day two years ago whenAshley, newly home from his three years' Grand Tour in Europe, had called to pay his respects, she had loved him.
-- He wrote of books which he andMelanie had read and songs they had sung, of old friends they knew and places he had visited on his Grand Tour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My dream was out; my wild fancy was surpassed by sober reality; Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune on a grand scale.
-- I had grand ideas of the wealth and importance of Insurers of Ships in the City, and I began to think with awe of having laid a young Insurer on his back, blackened his enterprising eye, and cut his responsible head open.
-- That's the grand thing.
-- The second piece was the last new grand comic Christmas pantomime, in the first scene of which, it pained me to suspect that I detected Mr. Wopsle with red worsted legs under a highly magnified phosphoric countenance and a shock of red curtain-fringe for his hair, engaged in the manufacture of thunderbolts in a mine, and displaying great cowardice when his gigantic master came home (very hoarse) to dinner.
-- We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a good name, and worked for our profits, and did very well.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, wife,' replied he, 'it is a grand thing to be pope; and now you must be easy, for you can be nothing greater.'
-- Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king's court, with rich gifts of gold and precious stones for his youngest son; now all these were sent from the three kings to whom he had lent his sword and loaf of bread, in order to rid them of their enemy and feed their people.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was a little comforted by a message from his majesty, 'that he would give orders to the grand justiciary for passing my pardon in form:' which, however, I could not obtain; and I was pri-vately assured, 'that the empress, conceiving the greatest abhorrence of what I had done, removed to the most dis-tant side of the court, firmly resolved that those buildings should never be repaired for her use: and, in the presence of her chief confidents could not forbear vowing revenge.'
-- This lord, in conjunction with Flimnap the high-treasurer, whose en-mity against you is notorious on account of his lady, Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes.'
-- His lordship added, 'That he would not, by any further particulars, prevent the pleasure I should certainly take in viewing the grand academy, whither he was resolved I should go.'
-- 223Chapter V The author permitted to see the grand academy of Lagado.
-- As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature with a general disposition to all virtues, and have no con-ceptions or ideas of what is evil in a rational creature, so their grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be whol-ly governed by it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The not being troubled with earnestness was a grand point in his favour, enabling him to take to the hard Fact fellows with as good a grace as if he had been born one of the tribe, and to throw all other tribes overboard, as conscious hypocrites.
-- A Grand Morning Performance by the Riders, commencing at that very hour, was in course of announcement by the bellman as they set their feet upon the stones of the street.
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