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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had not sailed above three days, when a great storm arising, we were driven five days to the north-north-east, and then to the east: after which we had fair weather, but still with a pretty strong gale from the west.
-- I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well.
-- Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head; however, I escaped pretty well by sticking close to the stem of the tree, but was almost stifled with the filth, which fell about me on every side.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would be the pictures of what was very pretty and pleasant, and I would fancy ''Ay, ay, ay!But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point.
-- 'Her calling seems to be pretty well known among 'em,' observed Mr. Bounderby.
-- 'Pretty well this, for a self-made man!'
-- It's pretty plain to me, he's off.'
-- Here his daughter Josephine a pretty fair-haired girl of eighteen, who had been tied on a horse at two years old, and had made a will at twelve, which she always carried about with her, expressive of her dying desire to be drawn to the grave by the two piebald ponies cried, 'Father, hush!she has come back!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But try as I might, nothing could keep me from thinking alternately of the stupid manuscript and of the pretty Gretchen.
-- We had nothing to do but to walk about the pretty town and bay.
-- In the early days of summer, the female of the eider, a pretty sort of duck, builds its nest amid the rocks of the fjords--the name given to all narrow gulfs in Scandinavian countries--with which every part of the island is indented.
-- Every step I took confirmed me in my belief, and I began already to build castles in the air in relation to my marriage with my pretty little cousin.
-- My worthy uncle, Professor Hardwigg, in concert with the great majority of geologists, had held firm, had disputed, discussed, and finally, after considerable talking and writing, M. Elie de Beaumont had been pretty well left alone in his opinions.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything went on in pretty good order, strict cleanliness, and strict punctuality; even pretty strict hon-esty.
-- The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.
-- 'Well,' stammered Clifford, 'even then I don't suppose I have much idea...I suppose marry-and-have-done-with-it would pretty well stand for what I think.
-- And out of all the rest of Clifford's pretty wide acquaintance, there was not a man who did not rouse her contempt, when she thought of having a child by him.
-- 'Pretty well,' he said, laughing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It received such light as it got through a grating of iron bars fashioned like a pretty large window, by means of which it could be always inspected from the gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.
-- said the keeper of the prison, taking his pretty child in his arms, and dictating the words with a kiss.
-- the pretty child repeated.
-- It happens without any aid of mine, pretty often.'
-- She was round and fresh and dimpled and spoilt, and there was in Pet an air of timidity and dependence which was the best weakness in the world, and gave her the only crowning charm a girl so pretty and pleasant could have been without.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Meg shook her head, as she thought regretfully of all the pretty things she wanted.
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