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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man was endowed in an eminent degree, not only with ordinary animal courage, that physical bravery of the battle-field, which is solely due to muscular energy, but he had what is far nobler—moral courage, firmness of soul.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Epanchin oh yes!a most eminent person.
-- Salaskin is a very eminent man, indeed, in his own world; he is a wonderfully clever solicitor, and if he really tells you this, I think you may be pretty sure that he is right.
-- But the elder brother of this same Paparchin, had been an eminent and very rich merchant.
-- A certain Prince S arrived in St. Petersburg from Mos-cow, an eminent and honourable young man.
-- I had often heard of him as a very learned man, but an atheist; and I was very glad of the opportunity of conversing with so eminent and clever a person.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two then made towards him to strip him of his armour, but Hector called on all his brothers for help, and he espe-cially upbraided brave Melanippus son of Hiketaon, who erewhile used to pasture his herds of cattle in Percote before the war broke out; but when the ships of the Danaans came, he went back to Ilius, where he was eminent among the Tro-jans, and lived near Priam who treated him as one of his own sons.
-- Such was I then, but now I must leave these matters to younger men; I must bow before the weight of years, but in those days I was eminent among heroes.
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：
-- I ran across him in the street and congratulated him on the knighthood with which his eminent services during the war had been rewarded.
-- Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, "Remarkable Behaviour of an Eminent Scientist," I heard the Editor say, thinking (after his wont) in headlines.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the next place, it occurred to me that although the usage they gave one another was thus brutish and inhuman, yet it was really nothing to me: these people had done me no injury: that if they attempted, or I saw it necessary, for my immediate preservation, to fall upon them, something might be said for it: but that I was yet out of their power, and they re-ally had no knowledge of me, and consequently no design upon me; and therefore it could not be just for me to fall upon them; that this would justify the conduct of the Span-iards in all their barbarities practised in America, where they destroyed millions of these people; who, however they were idolators and barbarians, and had several bloody and barbarous rites in their customs, such as sacrificing human bodies to their idols, were yet, as to the Spaniards, very in-nocent people; and that the rooting them out of the country is spoken of with the utmost abhorrence and detestation by even the Spaniards themselves at this time, and by all other Christian nations of Europe, as a mere butchery, a bloody and unnatural piece of cruelty, unjustifiable either to God or man; and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reck-oned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or of Christian compassion; as if the kingdom of Spain were particularly eminent for the produce of a race of men who were without principles of tenderness, or the common bow-els of pity to the miserable, which is reckoned to be a mark of generous temper in the mind.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at him any time within the half hour before the curtain was up, he was a member of an eminent group--a rounded company of five or more whose stout figures, large white bosoms, and shining pins bespoke the character of their success.
-- In the notices of passengers for Europe he read the names of eminent frequenters of his old resort.
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