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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was then that he projected the grand scheme which made him popular in Scotland.
-- This venerable edifice, so marvelously described by Walter Scott, remains intact amid the ruins made by the Reformation; and it was there, beneath its lofty arches, in the grand nave, in the presence of an immense crowd, and surrounded by tombs as thickly set as in a cemetery, that they all assembled to implore the blessing of Heaven on their expedition, and to put themselves under the protection of Providence.
-- "Monsieur Jacques Paganel," said Lord Glenarvan, after a brief pause, "that would certainly be a grand achievement, and you would confer a great boon on science, but I should not like to allow you to be laboring under a mistake any longer, and I must tell you, therefore, that for the present at least, you must give up the pleasure of a visit to India."
-- It was not that he was so glad to see a real Patagonian, by whom he looked a perfect pigmy—a Patagonian who might have almost rivaled the Emperor Maximii, and that Congo negro seen by the learned Van der Brock, both eight feet high; but he caught up Spanish phrases from the Indian and studied the language without a book this time, gesticulating at a great rate all the grand sonorous words that fell on his ear.
-- "So much the better," replied the enthusiastic Paganel; "I should like a grand exhibition, since we can't run away."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general remarked her suspicions, and felt that a grand explanation must shortly take place which fact alarmed him much.
-- I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the case is this: We are not rich enough or grand enough for them; and she is the more anxious to get Miss Darcy for her brother, from the notion that when there has been ONE intermar-riage, she may have less trouble in achieving a second; in which there is certainly some ingenuity, and I dare say it would succeed, if Miss de Bourgh were out of the way.
-- The arrival of letters was the grand object of every morning's impatience.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This cost me as much thought as a statesman would have bestowed upon a grand point of politics, or a judge upon the life and death of a man.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About this time the two Miss Steeles, lately arrived at their cousin's house in Bartlett's Buildings, Holburn, presented themselves again before their more grand relations in Conduit and Berkeley Streets; and were welcomed by them all with great cordiality.
-- The dinner was a grand one, the servants were numerous, and every thing bespoke the Mistress's inclination for show, and the Master's ability to support it.
-- As Elinor was neither musical, nor affecting to be so, she made no scruple of turning her eyes from the grand pianoforte, whenever it suited her, and unrestrained even by the presence of a harp, and violoncello, would fix them at pleasure on any other object in the room.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, he's manager of the Grand Opera House."
-- There were soft rugs, rich, upholstered chairs and divans, a grand piano, a marble carving of some unknown Venus by some unknown artist, and a number of small bronzes gathered from heaven knows where, but generally sold by the large furniture houses along with everything else which goes to make the "perfectly appointed house."
-- He began to feel the appetite that had been wanting before he had reached the office, and decided before going out to the park to meet Carrie to drop in at the Grand Pacific and have a pot of coffee and some rolls.
-- She got the location of several playhouses fixed in her mind--notably the Grand Opera House and McVickar's, both of which were leading in attractions--and then came away.
-- One of the principal comedy companies of the day was playing an engagement at the Grand Opera House.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They was as high-toned and well born and rich and grand as the tribe of Grangerfords.
-- I waked him up, and I reckoned it was going to be a grand surprise to him to see me again, but it warn't.
-- He lined out two lines, everybody sung it, and it was kind of grand to hear it, there was so many of them and they done it in such a rousing way; then he lined out two more for them to sing and so on.
-- ; and the way they laid on and pranced around the raft was grand to see.
-- Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when he'd take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that you'd say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe was old Leviticus himself.
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