largely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 主要地， 基本上； 大量地， 大规模地，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I am able to support myself it is largely due to the interest which he took in my unhappy situation.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How can you ask me that question, when it is a matter on which the fate of my family so largely depends?
-- However, all these rumours soon died down, to which circumstance certain facts largely contributed.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Antimachus who had been foremost in preventing Helen's being restored to Menelaus, for he was largely bribed by Alexandrus; and now Agamemnon took his two sons, both in the same char-iot, trying to bring their horses to a stand for they had lost hold of the reins and the horses were mad with fear.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Madeline, Gottlieb was a wicked old man who made fun of the sanctities of Marriage and Easter lilies, to Clif, he was a bore, but Leora glowed as Martin banged the table and quoted his idol: "Up to the present, even in the work of Ehrlich, most research has been largely a matter of trial and error, the empirical method, which is the opposite of the scientific method, by which one seeks to establish a general law governing a group of phenomena so that he may predict what will happen."
-- He remembered that to Clif Clawson it had been pretentious to use any phrase which was not as colloquial and as smutty as the speech of a truck-driver, and that his own discourse had differed from Clif's largely in that it had been less fantastic and less original.
-- Dr. Feesons of Clinton wrote to Pickerbaugh: I figure it was largely due to your snappy come-on letter that we pulled such an attendance and with all modesty I think we may say it was the best health convention ever held in the world.
-- Martin felt that he ought to praise his chief but, to Leora's gratified amazement, he sprang up and ranted in something like Pickerbaugh's best manner: "Gentlemen of the Steel Windmill Industries, than which there is no other that has so largely contributed to the prosperity of our commonwealth, while I realize that you are getting away with every infraction of the health laws that the inspector doesn't catch you at, yet I desire to pay a tribute to your high respect for sanitation, patriotism, and cocktails, and if I only had an assistant more earnest than young Arrowsmith, I should, with your permission, become President of the United States."
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
-- The smaller human elements were kept out of sight; the pettinesses that enter so largely into all earthly living and doing were disguised by the accident of lover and loved-one not being on visiting terms; and there was hardly awakened a thought in Boldwood that sorry household realities appertained to her, or that she, like all others, had moments of commonplace, when to be least plainly seen was to be most prettily remembered.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If the nice people of Charleston feel that way, I'm sure we will all feel the same way soon," she said, for she hada deeply rooted belief that, excepting only Savannah, most of the gentle blood of the whole continent could be foundin that small seaport city, a belief shared largely by Charlestonians.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All crimes against the state, are punished here with the utmost severity; but, if the person accused makes his innocence plainly to appear upon his trial, the accuser is immediately put to an ignominious death; and out of his goods or lands the innocent person is quadruply recompensed for the loss of his time, for the danger he underwent, for the hardship of 65his imprisonment, and for all the charges he has been at in making his defence; or, if that fund be deficient, it is largely supplied by the crown.
-- The academy largely described.
-- Wit, valour, and politeness, were likewise proposed to be largely taxed, and collected in the same manner, by every person's giving his own word for the quantum of what he possessed.
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 since the field of life is largely an artificially-lighted stage today, the stories were curiously true to modern life, to the modern psychol-ogy, that is.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So there Casby sat, twirling and twirling, and making his polished head and forehead look largely benevolent in every knob.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nevertheless, as upon the good conduct of the harpooneers the success of a whaling voyage largely depends, and since in the American Fishery he is not only an important officer in the boat, but under certain circumstances (night watches on a whaling ground) the command of the ship's deck is also his; therefore the grand political maxim of the sea demands, that he should nominally live apart from the men before the mast, and be in some way distinguished as their professional superior; though always, by them, familiarly regarded as their social equal.
-- Steering north-eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with vast meadows of brit, the minute, yellow substance, upon which the Right Whale largely feeds.
-- In most other parts of the ocean, however, where these fish do not so largely abound, their wondrous voracity can be at times considerably diminished, by vigorously stirring them up with sharp whaling-spades, a procedure notwithstanding, which, in some instances, only seems to tickle them into still greater activity.
-- And since the nose is the central and most conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect the countenance of the whale.
-- But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough, the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went over in memory the names of a number of women he knew, and finally fixed on one, largely because of the convenient location of her home on the West Side, and promised himself that as he came out that evening he would see her.
-- It was thus that the little theatre resounded to a babble of successful voices, the creak of fine clothes, the commonplace of good-nature, and all largely because of this man's bidding.
-- Such little arguments were all too frequent, the result of a growth of natures which were largely independent and selfish.
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