significant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有意义的； 重大的， 重要的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, Tellson's, in its day, like greater places of busi-ness, its contemporaries, had taken so many lives, that, if the heads laid low before it had been ranged on Temple Bar instead of being privately disposed of, they would probably have excluded what little light the ground floor had, in a rather significant manner.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If they knew," he thought, bending his head with a significant air as he listened to the report, "what a guilty little boy their president was half an hour ago."
-- "I've been thinking about you all this time, and I'm very, very glad you've come," he said, looking him in the face with a significant air.
-- I don't only manage my own affairs, but other people's too," he said with a significant expression.
-- Levin walked into the room, received a white ball, and followed his brother, Sergey Ivanovitch, to the table where Sviazhsky was standing with a significant and ironical face, holding his beard in his fist and sniffing at it.
-- "From Vozdvizhenskoe by special messenger," he said with a significant expression.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tubbs looked at the assistants; like a plotter in a political play, and hinted, "May we have a talk--" Gottlieb led him to his office, overlooking a vast bustle of side- tracks, of curving rails and brown freight-cars, and Tubbs urged: "It has come to our attention, by a curious chance, that you are on the eve of your most significant discovery.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lat-474 Crime and Punishmentter fact was very significant in Raskolnikov's eyes: he saw that Porfiry Petrovitch had not been embarrassed just be-fore either, but that he, Raskolnikov, had perhaps fallen into a trap; that there must be something, some motive here un-known to him; that, perhaps, everything was in readiness and in another moment would break upon him 芒聙娄 He went straight to the point at once, rose from his seat and took his cap.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one night, when I had been married some months, Mr. Dickput his head into the parlour, where I was writing alone (Dorahaving gone out with my aunt to take tea with the two little birds),and said, with a significant cough'You couldn't speak to mewithout inconveniencing yourself, Trotwood, I am afraid?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was half-way up the set, the whole group were exactly behind her, and she would no longer allow her eyes to watch; but Mr. Elton was so near, that she heard every syllable of a dialogue which just then took place between him and Mrs. Weston; and she perceived that his wife, who was standing immediately above her, was not only listening also, but even encourag-ing him by significant glances. The kind-hearted, gentle Mrs. Weston had left her seat to join him and say, 'Do not you dance, Mr.
-- Emma saw symptoms of it immediately in the expression of her face; and while paying her own compli-ments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady's replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold reticule by her side, saying, with significant nods, 'We can finish this some other time, you know.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The horse bore him away, and the very step of the animal seemed significant of dogged despair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my dreadful situation, it was a relief when he was brought back, and surveying the company all round as if they had disagreed with him, sank down into his chair with the one significant gasp, "Tar!"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never presumed to speak, except in answer to a question; and then I did it with inward regret, because it was a loss of so much time for improving myself; but I was infinitely delighted with the station of an humble auditor in such conversations, where nothing passed but what was useful, expressed in the fewest and most significant words; where, as I have already said, the greatest decency was ob-served, without the least degree of ceremony; where no person spoke without being pleased himself, and pleasing his companions; where there was no interruption, tedious-ness, heat, or difference of sentiments.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans shook his head in a terribly significant manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I dropped down upon you, then, you ill-conditioned man,' (Jeremiah chuckled at having forced her to adopt his phrase,) 'for having been needlessly significant to Arthur that morning.
-- Mr Flintwinch, having expelled a long significant breath said, with his former emphasis, 'For I have accidentally mind! found out.'
-- asked Daniel, with a significant smile at Clennam.
-- If this arrangement should be objectionable, I'll ' and with the same smile he made a significant feint of backing away.
-- This was notified to the yard by his now coming down the staircase in attendance on the gentleman and the lady, and by his pointing out the offended majesty of Mr Dorrit to them with a significant motion of his hand.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
-- When, as I opine, in the course of time, the true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name was still retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its value by a notion so strangely significant of its scarcity.
-- Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric, grand old kings of Pegu placing the title "Lord of the White Elephants" above all their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion; and the modern kings of Siam unfurling the same snow-white quadruped in the royal standard; and the Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, C脙娄sarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial colour the same imperial hue; and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; and though, besides, all this, whiteness has been even made significant of gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked a joyful day; and though in other mortal sympathies and symbolizings, this same hue is made the emblem of many touching, noble things the innocence of brides, the benignity of age; though among the Red Men of America the giving of the white belt of wampum was the deepest pledge of honor; though in many climes, whiteness typifies the majesty of Justice in the ermine of the Judge, and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn by milk-white steeds; though even in the higher mysteries of the most august religions it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and power; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white bull; and though to the noble Iroquois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they could send to the Great Spirit with the annual tidings of their own fidelity; and though directly from the Latin word for white, all Christian priests derive the name of one part of their sacred vesture, the alb or tunic, worn beneath the cassock; and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord; though in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to the redeemed, and the four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white before the great white throne, and the Holy One that sitteth there white like wool; yet for all these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.
-- But I must be content with only one more and a concluding illustration; a remarkable and most significant one, by which you will not fail to see, that not only is the most marvellous event in this book corroborated by plain facts of the present day, but that these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages; so that for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon Verily there is nothing new under the sun.
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