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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The steward of the yacht was an excellent maitre d'hotel, and might have been French for his airs of importance, but for all that he discharged his functions with zeal and intelligence.
-- As for Robert, his first attempt at mounting was successful, and proved that he had the making in him of an excellent horseman.
-- Certainly the boy deserved praise, for he was fast becoming an excellent cavalier.
-- A dozen of red partridges and rays were speedily brought down, and Glenarvan also managed very cleverly to kill a TAY-TETRE, or peccary, a pachydermatous animal, the flesh of which is excellent eating.
-- It was very fat and would make an excellent dish, the Patagonian said.
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:
-- From the accounts which have reached us he is an excellent fellow in every way.
-- He is curiously employed at present, for, being an amateur astronomer, he has an excellent telescope, with which he lies upon the roof of his own house and sweeps the moor all day in the hope of catching a glimpse of the escaped convict.
-- I made excellent arrangements, and they are only delayed one day upon their way.
-- My friend was in excellent spirits over the success which had attended a succession of difficult and important cases, so that I was able to induce him to discuss the details of the Baskerville mystery.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And yet if these good people could only have had a peep into the mind of this excellent fellow who 'knew his place' so well!The fact is that, in spite of his knowledge of the world and his really remarkable abilities, he always liked to appear to be carrying out other people's ideas rather than his own.
-- Now, since Totski had, of late, been upon terms of great cordiality with Epanchin, which excellent relations were in-tensified by the fact that they were, so to speak, partners in several financial enterprises, it so happened that the for-mer now put in a friendly request to the general for counsel with regard to the important step he meditated.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The 3rd of August, I found the grapes I had hung up perfectly dried, and, indeed, were excellent good raisins of the sun; so I began to take them down from the trees, and it was very happy that I did so, for the rains which followed would have spoiled them, and I had lost the best part of my winter food; for I had above two hundred large bunches of them.
-- It proved of excellent advan-tage to me now, that when I was a boy, I used to take great delight in standing at a basket-maker's, in the town where my father lived, to see them make their wicker-ware; and being, as boys usually are, very officious to help, and a great observer of the manner in which they worked those things, and sometimes lending a hand, I had by these means full knowledge of the methods of it, and I wanted nothing but the materials, when it came into my mind that the twigs of that tree from whence I cut my stakes that grew might possibly be as tough as the sallows, willows, and osiers in England, and I resolved to try.
-- I have been, in all my circumstances, a memento to those who are touched with the general plague of mankind, whence, for aught I know, one half of their miseries flow: I mean that of not being satisfied with the station wherein God and Nature hath placed them - for, not to look back upon my primitive condition, and the excellent advice of my father, the opposition to which was, as I may call it, my ORIGINAL SIN, my subsequent mistakes of the same kind had been the means of my coming into this miserable con-dition; for had that Providence which so happily seated me at the Brazils as a planter blessed me with confined desires, and I could have been contented to have gone on gradually, I might have been by this time - I mean in the time of my being in this island - one of the most considerable planters in the Brazils - nay, I am persuaded, that by the improve-ments I had made in that little time I lived there, and the increase I should probably have made if I had remained, I might have been worth a hundred thousand moidores - and what business had I to leave a settled fortune, a well-stocked plantation, improving and increasing, to turn supercargo to Guinea to fetch negroes, when patience and time would have so increased our stock at home, that we could have bought them at our own door from those whose business it was to fetch them?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had an excellent heart; her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.
-- It would be an excellent match, for HE was rich, and SHE was handsome.
-- He seems an excellent man; and I think him uncommonly pleasing."
-- Like half the rest of the world, if more than half there be that are clever and good, Marianne, with excellent abilities and an excellent disposition, was neither reasonable nor candid.
-- They are excellent neighbours to you in the country, I understand."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the most part he lounged about, dressed in excellent tailored suits of imported goods, a solitaire ring, a fine blue diamond in his tie, a striking vest of some new pattern, and a watch-chain of solid gold, which held a charm of rich design, and a watch of the latest make and engraving.
-- They went through Monroe Street to the old Windsor dining-room, which was then a large, comfortable place, with an excellent cuisine and substantial service.
-- Carrie had no excellent home principles fixed upon her.
-- The coat lapels stood out with that medium stiffness which excellent cloth possesses.
-- His grace, tact, and ornate appearance gave the place an air which was most essential, while at the same time his long experience made him a most excellent judge of its stock necessities.
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