excellent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 卓越的， 极好的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it would be ungrateful indeed in me, to forget that I have had many quiet, comfortable hours there; that I had an excellent friend there when I was quite a baby, who was very very fond of me; that I have been taught there, and have worked there, and have slept soundly there.
-- 'Finching oh yes isn't it a dreadful name, but as Mr F. said when he proposed to me which he did seven times and handsomely consented I must say to be what he used to call on liking twelve months, after all, he wasn't answerable for it and couldn't help it could he, Excellent man, not at all like you but excellent man!'
-- Even the best friend I have in the world, our excellent friend over yonder,' said Doyce, nodding towards Twickenham, 'extends a sort of protection to me, don't you know, as a man not quite able to take care of himself?'
-- Gentlemen, he was a most excellent man, a most gentle, tender, and estimable man, with the simplicity of a child; but would he, though unsuited for most other places, do for that place?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was excellent drill for their memories, a harmless amusement, and em-ployed many hours which otherwise would have been idle, lonely, or spent in less profitable society.
-- 'These girls were anxious to be good and made many excellent res-olutions, but they did not keep them very well, and were constantly saying, 'If only we had this, ' or 'If we could only do that, ' quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many things they actually could do.
-- 'Yes, he has had an excellent education, and has much talent.
-- It broke the ice in the be-ginning by producing a laugh, it created quite a refreshing breeze, flapping to and fro as she rowed, and would make an excellent umbrella for the whole party, if a shower came up, she said.
-- He was not very wise, but very good-natured, and altogeth-er an excellent person to carry on a picnic.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one.
-- There was excellent blood in his veins royal stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his untutored youth.
-- But it was startling to see this excellent hearted Quakeress coming on board, as she did the last day, with a long oil-ladle in one hand, and a still longer whaling lance in the other.
-- His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.
-- The original matter touching the sperm whale to be found in their volumes is necessarily small; but so far as it goes, it is of excellent quality, though mostly confined to scientific description.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What an excellent example of the power of dress, young Oliver Twist was!Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have assigned him his proper station in society.
-- Boys have generally excellent appetites.
-- Now, the fact was that the excellent doctor had never acted upon anything but impulse all through his life, and it was no bad compliment to the nature of the impulses which governed him, that so far from being involved in any peculiar troubles or misfortunes, he had the warmest respect and esteem of all who knew him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What an excellent father you have, girls!'
-- 'Oh!my dear Mr. Bennet,' as she entered the room, 'we have had a most delightful evening, a most excellent ball.
-- Mrs. Hurst thought the same, and added: 'She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker.
-- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.'
-- This was his plan of amends of atonement for inheriting their father's estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But,' said I, 'you swim well enough to reach to the shore, and the sea is calm; make the best of your way to shore, and I will do you no harm; but if you come near the boat I'll shoot you through the head, for I am re-solved to have my liberty;' so he turned himself about, and swam for the shore, and I make no doubt but he reached it with ease, for he was an excellent swimmer.
-- But I found an excellent use for these grapes; and that was, to cure or dry them in the sun, and keep them as dried grapes or raisins are kept, which I thought would be, as indeed they were, wholesome and agreeable to eat when no grapes could be had.
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