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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The portly Sylvie presently came up to tell her mistress that a girl too pretty to be honest, "dressed like a goddess," and not a speck of mud on her laced cashmere boots, had glided in from the street like a snake, had found the kitchen, and asked for M. Goriot's room.
-- He had never had either wife or daughter; excesses had reduced him to this sluggish condition; he was a sort of human mollusk who should be classed among the capulidoe, so one of the dinner contingent, an _employe_ at the Museum, who had a pretty wit of his own.
-- What you want is a friend who will give the monster a piece of his mind; a barbarian that has three millions (so they say), and will not give you a dowry; and a pretty girl needs a dowry nowadays."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the evening 29previous to her being brought to my home, my mother had said playfully, 'I have a pretty present for my Victor to-morrow he shall have it.'
-- I gave him pretty nearly the same account of my former pursuits as I had given to his fellow professor.
-- He has already had one or two little *wives*, but Louisa Biron is his favou-rite, a pretty little girl of five years of age.
-- The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratu-latory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq.
-- But he has already recovered his spirits, and is reported to be on the point of marrying a very lively, pretty French-woman, Madame Tavernier.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation, that brightApril afternoon of 1861, she made a pretty picture.
-- As valet, he kept Gerald'sbedroom in order, and, as butler, he served the meals with dignity and style, but otherwise he pretty well let mattersfollow their own course.
-- She lay in thesilvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasantthat defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.
-- He was happy, pleasantly excited over the prospect of spending the day shouting about the Yankees and the war,and proud of his three pretty daughters in their bright spreading hoop skirts beneath foolish little lace parasols.
-- He only thoughtthat she was pretty and a great credit to him and that, today, her eyes were as green as the hills of Ireland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew my way to the Battery, pretty straight, for I had been down there on a Sunday with Joe, and Joe, sitting on an old gun, had told me that when I was 'prentice to him, regularly bound, we would have such Larks there!However, in the confusion of the mist, I found myself at last too far to the right, and consequently had to try back along the river-side, on the bank of loose stones above the mud and the stakes that staked the tide out.
-- (I thought this pretty well in him who had been praising up the pork for being so plump and juicy.)
-- They're pretty well known to be out on the marshes still, and they won't try to get clear of 'em before dusk.
-- The soldiers were in front of us, extending into a pretty wide line with an interval between man and man.
-- returned the young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud; "come in, Pip."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'After all,' thought he, 'that chap is pretty well taken in.
-- When any young man came within a hun-dred paces of her castle, he became quite fixed, and could not move a step till she came and set him free; which she would not do till he had given her his word never to come there again: but when any pretty maiden came within that space she was changed into a bird, and the fairy put her into a cage, and hung her up in a chamber in the castle.
-- She was prettier than all the pretty girls that ever were seen before, and a shepherd lad, whose name was Jorindel, was very fond of her, and they were soon to be married.
-- In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morn-ing, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
-- 'Wife,' said the fisherman, 'I don't like to go to him again, for perhaps he will be angry; we ought to be easy with this pretty cottage to live in.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is in length three glomglungs (which make about fifty-four English miles,) and two and a half in breadth; as I measured it myself in the royal map made by the king's order, which was laid on the ground on purpose for me, and extended a hundred feet: I paced the diameter and circumference several times barefoot, and, computing by the scale, measured it pretty exactly.
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