costly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 昂贵的， 价值高的， 豪华的，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：
-- The Indians know his value, and take care of him as if he were some costly animal."
-- Ayrton's approbation was much less hearty, for he considered it mere costly superfluity.
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：
-- And now the Emperor himself wished to see the costly manufacture, while it was still in the loom.
-- The ceiling of the room resembled a large palm-tree with leaves of glass, of costly glass; and in the middle, from a thick golden stem, hung two beds, each of which resembled a lily.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The coffee was never really made, but spluttered over every one, and boiled away, doing just what was required of it--that is, providing much cause for much noise and laughter, and spoiling a costly rug and the baroness's gown.
-- Anna was already dressed in a low-necked gown of light silk and velvet that she had had made in Paris, and with costly white lace on her head, framing her face, and particularly becoming, showing up her dazzling beauty.
-- It was impossible to excuse a laborer who had gone home in the busy season because his father was dying, however sorry he might feel for him, and he must subtract from his pay those costly months of idleness.
-- And now, according to Sergey Ivanovitch's account, the people had foregone this privilege they had bought at such a costly price.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was believed that he was the son of a German prince, that he had immense wealth, that he lived as sparsely as the other professors only because he was doing terrifying and costly experiments which probably had something to do with human sacrifice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, as most of themhad, hanging up among their stock, an officer's coat or two,epaulettes and all, I was rendered timid by the costly nature oftheir dealings, and walked about for a long time without offeringmy merchandise to any one.
-- Some attempts had been made, I noticed, to infuse new blood into 661this dwindling frame, by repairing the costly old woodwork hereand there with common deal; but it was like the marriage of areduced old noble to a plebeian pauper, and each party to theillassorted union shrunk away from the other.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he dreamt one night that he found a beautiful pur-ple flower, and that in the middle of it lay a costly pearl; and he dreamt that he plucked the flower, and went with it 20 Grimms' Fairy Talesin his hand into the castle, and that everything he touched with it was disenchanted, and that there he found his Jorin-da again.
-- In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morn-ing, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
-- Then the queen her mother, packed up a great many costly things; jewels, and gold, and silver; trinkets, fine dresses, and in short everything that became a royal bride.
-- 'Alas!dear sir,' said she, 'yonder lies the granite rock where all the costly diamonds grow, and I want so much to go there, that whenever I think of it I cannot help being sorrowful, for who can reach it?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereupon I was at much pains to describe to him the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the metals; 'that when a Ya-hoo had got a great store of this precious substance, he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to; the finest cloth-ing, the noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats and drinks, and have his choice of the most beautiful females.
-- Therefore he desired I would let him know, 'what these costly meats were, and how any of us happened to want them?'
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：
-- And to convert into oil was as yet too costly and too elaborate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Courtly ideas of Covent Garden, as a place with famous coffee-houses, where gentlemen wearing gold-laced coats and swords had quarrelled and fought duels; costly ideas of Covent Garden, as a place where there were flowers in winter at guineas a-piece, pine-apples at guineas a pound, and peas at guineas a pint; picturesque ideas of Covent Garden, as a place where there was a mighty theatre, showing wonderful and beautiful sights to richly-dressed ladies and gentlemen, and which was for ever far beyond the reach of poor Fanny or poor uncle; desolate ideas of Covent Garden, as having all those arches in it, where the miserable children in rags among whom she had just now passed, like young rats, slunk and hid, fed on offal, huddled together for warmth, and were hunted about (look to the rats young and old, all ye Barnacles, for before God they are eating away our foundations, and will bring the roofs on our heads!
-- The room was far more splendid than anything Little Dorrit had ever imagined, and would have been splendid and costly in any eyes.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Demi's miracle of mechanical skill, though the cover wouldn't shut, Rob's footstool had a wiggle in its uneven legs that she declared was soothing, and no page of the costly book Amy's child gave her was so fair as that on which appeared in tipsy capi-tals, the words 'To dear Grandma, from her little Beth.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-coloured membrane, like the lining of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale's case.
-- Among many other fine qualities, my royal friend Tranquo, being gifted with a devout love for all matters of barbaric vertu, had brought together in Pupella whatever rare things the more ingenious of his people could invent; chiefly carved woods of wonderful devices, chiselled shells, inlaid spears, costly paddles, aromatic canoes; and all these distributed among whatever natural wonders, the wonder-freighted, tribute-rendering waves had cast upon his shores.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At least half a dozen more were severally drawn forth from the same box, and surveyed with equal pleasure; besides rings, brooches, bracelets, and other articles of jewellery, of such magnificent materials, and costly workmanship, that Oliver had no idea, even of their names.
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