pretty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 相当， 很a. 漂亮的， 俊俏的， 标致的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half a dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have light-ed the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip.
-- By this time it was getting dark, and snowing pretty heavily; and as Scrooge and the Spirit went along the streets, the brightness of the roaring fires in kitchens, parlours, and all sorts of rooms, was wonderful.
-- We know pretty well that we were helping ourselves, before we met here, I believe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The messenger rode back at an easy trot, stopping pretty often at ale-houses by the way to drink, but evincing a ten-dency to keep his own counsel, and to keep his hat cocked over his eyes.
-- The tide will serve pretty nicely at about two in the af-ternoon, sir.
-- Consequently, another drawer, and two porters, and several maids and the landlady, were all loitering by accident at various points of the road between the Concord and the coffee-room, when a gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets, passed along on his way to his breakfast.
-- 'But I would hold a pretty wager, sir, that a House like Tellson and Company was flourishing, a matter of fifty, not to speak of fifteen years ago?'
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the evening he had made a pretty little kitchen-pot.
-- First came a dozen drummers, who un-derstood pretty well how to handle their instruments; then came halberdiers, and some armed with cross-bows.
-- The room had some resemblance to the clay-floored halls in Holstein; a pretty numerous company, consisting of seamen, Copenhagen burghers, and a few scholars, sat here in deep converse over their pewter cans, and gave little heed to the person who entered.
-- That he was ill, she com-prehended directly; so she brought him a pitcher of water, which tasted certainly pretty strong of the sea, although it had been fetched from the well.
-- 34 Andersen's Fairy TalesThat's, of course, not true: but 'twould be pretty enough if it were so.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A pretty sharp fellow this Fomin must be," said Grinevitch of one of the persons taking part in the case they were examining.
-- I've come to meet a pretty woman," said Oblonsky.
-- "Let me have a kiss of your pretty face.
-- "There, you never know how to say such pretty things," said the baroness, turning to Petritsky.
-- Vronsky heard with pleasure this light-hearted prattle of a pretty woman, agreed with her, gave her half-joking counsel, and altogether dropped at once into the tone habitual to him in talking to such women.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, these are pretty dear shoes!"
-- "You are pretty strong, eh?"
-- "The rogue told me a lot of stories," repeated Passepartout, "about the meridians, the sun, and the moon!Moon, indeed!moonshine more likely!If one listened to that sort of people, a pretty sort of time one would keep!I was sure that the sun would some day regulate itself by my watch!"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, sir, but I did pretty well in organic."
-- "Leora!And you don't think I try and pick up every pretty girl I meet?
-- "Oh, yes, it's pretty nice.
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