eminent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 著名的, 卓越的，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：
-- Whether his 223meditations on mortality had touched his liver, or wheth-er his general health had been previously at all amiss, or whether he desired to show a little attention to an eminent man, is not so much to the purpose, as that he made a short call upon his medical adviser a distinguished surgeon on his way back.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was an eminent scientist, and it was outrageous that he should have to endure impudence from a probationer--a singularly vulgar probationer, a thin and slangy young woman apparently from the West.
-- Martin was astonished to see the eminent pharmacologist, after a shocked inspection of the sour chicken and mishandled salad which made up most of the dinner, pour something into his water glass from a huge silver flask--and pour that something frequently.
-- Angus was one of the few who knew without wavering precisely what he was going to do: after his internship he was to join the celebrated Chicago clinic headed by Dr. Rouncefield, the eminent abdominal surgeon.
-- However, gentlemen,' I said, 'the impulse that prompts me to consider, in all modesty, your unexpected and probably undeserved honor is the fact that it seems to me that what Congress needs is more forward-looking scientists to plan and more genu-ine trained business men to execute the improvements demanded by our evolving commonwealth, and also the possibility of persuading the Boys there at Washington of the pre- eminent and crying need of a Secretary of Health who shall completely control--'" But no matter what Martin thought about it, the Republicans really did nominate Pickerbaugh for Congress.
-- V R. A. Hopburn, the eminent patent-lawyer, as he drove away from the Arrowsmith-Lanyon mansion grunted at his wife: "I don't mind a host throwing the port at you, if he thinks you're a chump, but I do mind his being bored at your daring to express any opinion whatever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had been very happy there, I had a greatattachment for the Doctor, and I was eminent and distinguished inthat little world.
-- I have already some acquaintance withthe law- as a defendant on civil process- and I shall immediatelyapply myself to the Commentaries of one of the most eminent andremarkable of our English jurists.
-- Let it be,in justice, merely said of me, as of a gallant and eminent navalHero, with whom I have no pretensions to cope, that what I havedone, I did, in despite of mercenary and selfish objects,'For England, home, and beauty.'
-- I was looking back to the name of Doctor Mell, pleased to havediscovered, in these happier circumstances, Mr. Mell, formerlypoor pinched usher to my Mid- dlesex magistrate, when Mr.Peggotty pointing to another part of the paper, my eyes rested onmy own name, and I read thus:"TO DAVID COPPERFIELD,ESQUIRE, THE EMINENT AUTHOR.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Churchill had been recommended to the medical skill of an eminent person there, and had otherwise a fancy for the place.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound appren-tice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
-- It was now day-light, and I returned to my house without waiting to congratulate with the emperor: because, although I had done a very eminent piece of service, yet I could not tell how his majesty might resent the manner by which I had performed it: for, by the fundamental laws of the realm, it is capital in any person, of what quality soever, to make 62 Gulliver's Travelswater within the precincts of the palace.
-- The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth, are provided with grave and learned professors, and their sev-eral deputies.
-- He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour; but so ill an ear for music, that his de-tractors reported, 'he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place;' neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty, teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposi-tion in the mathematics.
-- These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of reward-ing merit, great abilities, eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for em-ployments persons qualified to exercise them, with many other wild, impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, 'that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational, which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the eminent geologists of the United Kingdom who looked upon the fact as certain--Messrs. Falconer, Buck, Carpenter, and others--were soon united the learned men of Germany, and among those in the first rank, the most eager, the most enthusiastic, was my worthy uncle, Professor Hardwigg.
-- By means of these wondrous and unexpected discoveries, man ascended endless centuries in the scale of time; he, in fact, preceded the mastodon; became the contemporary of the Elephas meridionalis--the southern elephant; acquired an antiquity of over a hundred thousand years, since that is the date given by the most eminent geologists to the Pliocene period of the earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In consideration of this eminent public service, the Barnacle then in power had recommended the Crown to bestow a pension of two or three hundred a-year on his widow; to which the next Barnacle in power had added certain shady and sedate apartments in the Palaces at Hampton Court, where the old lady still lived, deploring the degeneracy of the times in company with several other old ladies of both sexes.
-- If we should ever be happily enabled, by accidentally possessing the control over circumstances, to propose to one so eminent to to come among us, and give us the weight of his influence, knowledge, and character, we could only propose it to him as a duty.
-- Poor Little Dorrit, with a rather forlorn glance at that eminent varnisher, promised to try.
-- This eminent gentleman and Mr Merdle, seated diverse ways and with ruminating aspects on a yellow ottoman in the light of the fire, holding no verbal communication with each other, bore a strong general resemblance to the two cows in the Cuyp picture over against them.
-- In a day or two it was announced to all the town, that Edmund Sparkler, Esquire, son-in-law of the eminent Mr Merdle of worldwide renown, was made one of the Lords of the Circumlocution Office; and proclamation was issued, to all true believers, that this admirable appointment was to be hailed as a graceful and gracious mark of homage, rendered by the graceful and gracious Decimus, to that commercial interest which must ever in a great commercial country and all the rest of it, with blast of trumpet.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I must not forget that we had in the ship a dog and two cats, of whose eminent history I may have occasion to say some-thing in its place; for I carried both the cats with me; and as for the dog, he jumped out of the ship of himself, and swam on shore to me the day after I went on shore with my first cargo, and was a trusty servant to me many years; I wanted nothing that he could fetch me, nor any company that he could make up to me; I only wanted to have him talk to me, but that would not do.
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