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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A significant glance from Lady Helena told him, moreover, how affairs stood, and inspired him with affectionate sympathy for the young lovers; but nothing of this was apparent in his manner to John, for his next question was what sort of a voyage he had made.
-- But along the coast the country appeared to be inhabited, and significant signs of industry revealed the presence of civilized men, not savages.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your bundle has some importance, however,' continued the clerk, when they had laughed their fill (it was observable that the subject of their mirth joined in the laughter when he saw them laughing); 'for though I dare say it is not stuffed full of friedrichs d'or and louis d'or judge from your cos-tume and gaiters still if you can add to your possessions such a valuable property as a relation like Mrs. General Ep-anchin, then your bundle becomes a significant object at once.
-- There was nothing particularly significant in the fact that a man was standing back in the doorway, waiting to come out or go upstairs; but the prince felt an irresistible conviction that he knew this man, and that it was Rogojin.
-- This is a significant phrase; we often hear it.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the Huron used his native language, the prisoners, notwithstanding the caution of the natives had kept them within the swing of their tomahawks, could only conjecture the substance of his harangue from the nature of those significant gestures with which an In-dian always illustrates his eloquence.
-- Well did these barbarous warriors prove that they deserved those significant names which had been bestowed for deeds in former wars.
-- 'We heard it,' was the significant answer.
-- When they issued from beneath its concealment, they found the scout awaiting their appearance nigh by, and the only salutation between them was the significant gesture for silence, made by their sagacious leader.
-- The Delaware, whose name in English signified 'Hard Heart,' an appellation that the French had translated into 'le Coeurdur,' forgot that obduracy of purpose, which had probably obtained him so significant a title.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Facts were nothing to him, for beneath the mass of irrelevant incidents he looked for something significant to himself.
-- The years during which he was struggling to acquire proficiency in a difficult art were monotonous, and I do not know that there was anything significant in the shifts to which he was put to earn enough money to keep him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So go on my buck,' said Mr Swiveller, taking his leave of the ceiling with a significant nod, 'and let us see which of us will be tired first!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The maid brought it long ago, and is now waiting in my room," said Agrippina Petrovna, handing him the letter with a significant smile.
-- Mariette, graceful, slim, elegant, decolette, with her strong, muscular shoulders sloping down from the neck, at the jointure of which was a darkening little mole, immediately turned around, and, pointing with her fan to a chair behind her, greeted him with a welcome, grateful, and, as it seemed to Nekhludoff, significant smile.
-- There was an exchange of those mysterious, significant glances in which everything was truth; then followed an exchange of words in which that truth was lacking.
-- he said, with a significant glance, looking Nekhludoff straight in the eyes.
-- That glance was significant to both.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by that bold green promontory, known to seamen as Java Head; they not a little correspond to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and jewels, and gold, and ivory, with which the thousand islands of that oriental sea are enriched, it seems a significant provision of nature, that such treasures, by the very formation of the land, should at least bear the appearance, however ineffectual, of being guarded from the all-grasping western world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sikes dismounted with great precipitation, holding Oliver by the hand all the while; an d lifting him down directly, bestowed a furious look upon him, and rapped the side-pocket with his fist, in a significant manner.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in an instant arose the dreadful suspicion of his being purposely omitted for Mr. Darcy's pleasure in the Bingleys' invitation to the officers; and though this was not exactly the case, the absolute fact of his absence was pronounced by his friend Denny, to whom Lydia eagerly ap-plied, and who told them that Wickham had been obliged to go to town on business the day before, and was not yet returned; adding, with a significant smile, 'I do not imagine his business would have called him away just now, if he had not wanted to avoid a certain gentleman here.'
-- By many significant looks and silent entreaties, did she endeavour to prevent such a proof of complaisance, but in vain; Mary would not understand them; such an opportunity of exhibiting was delightful to her, and she began her song.
-- The next variation which their visit afforded was pro-duced by the entrance of servants with cold meat, cake, and a variety of all the finest fruits in season; but this did not take place till after many a significant look and smile from Mrs. Annesley to Miss Darcy had been given, to remind her of her post.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, as it was, she only learned, from some very significant looks, how far their penetration, founded on Margaret's instructions, extended.
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