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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago.
-- By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
-- Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights?
-- Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If elsewhere she produces grand artistic effects by piling up huge masses without order or connection--if elsewhere we see truncated cones, imperfect pyramids, with an odd succession of lines; here, as if wishing to give a lesson in regularity, and preceding the architects of the early ages, she has erected a severe order of architecture, which neither the splendors of Babylon nor the marvels of Greece ever surpassed.
-- I had often heard of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and of Fingal's Cave in one of the Hebrides, but the grand spectacle of a real basaltic formation had never yet come before my eyes.
-- The ocean lay beneath us at a depth of more than three thousand two hundred feet--a grand and mighty spectacle.
-- As we approached nearer and nearer, the dimensions of the liquid sheaf of waters became truly grand and stupendous.
-- "Then we shall have plenty of time both to go and to come, and with what remains I undertake to give a grand dinner to my colleagues of the Johanneum."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet when those days of her grand joyful cheerfulness and stimulus were gone, quite gone, and she was depressed and irritable, how Clifford longed for them again!Perhaps if he'd known he might even have wished to get her and Mi-chaelis together again.
-- I agree with you, Socrates gave the critical activity a grand start, but he did more than that,' said Char-lie May, rather magisterially.
-- All the many busy and important little things that make up the grand sum-total of nothingness!
-- The men are so good and patient!What can they do, poor chaps!But the women, oh, they do carry on!They go and show off, giving contributions for a wedding present for Princess Mary, and then when they see all the grand things that's been given, they simply rave: who's she, any better than anybody else!
-- And the grand new houses for the men, fair man-sions!of course it's brought a lot of riff-raff from all over the country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father did not believe it to be a grand party indeed he might suppose that.
-- Arrived at that grand destination, Fanny singled out the handsomest house, and knocking at the door, inquired for Mrs Merdle.
-- Mr Merdle again expressed himself as wholly devoted to that object of his constant consideration, and Bar took his persuasive eye-glass up the grand staircase.
-- That gentleman, after looking at the table-cloth until the soul of the chief butler glowed with a noble resentment, went slowly up after the rest, and became of no account in the stream of people on the grand staircase.
-- But when he substituted her father for herself, and told her how he would ride in his carriage, and how great and grand he would be, her tears of joy and innocent pride fell fast.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came the grand effect of the play.
-- The hall was empty, and they had a grand pol-ka, for Laurie danced well, and taught her the German step, which delighted Jo, being full of swing and spring.
-- They found Mr. Laurence standing before the fire in the great drawing room, by Jo's attention was entirely absorbed by a grand piano, which stood open.
-- Mrs. March wanted to talk of her father with the old man who had not forgotten him, Meg longed to walk in the conservatory, Beth sighed for the grand piano.
-- But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up courage to go to the 'Mansion of Bliss', as Meg called it.
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