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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door.
-- A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk!
-- You could pretty plainly tell how long each one had been ashore.
-- But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon, going to the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on his lap began counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at every fiftieth page as I fancied stopping a moment, looking vacantly around him, and giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment.
-- Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This suggested itself as the very best thing that could possibly be done with him: the probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class.
-- All his relations let him have his own way pretty well.
-- 'Nonsense, my good man,' said the undertaker, who was pretty well used to misery in all its shapes.
-- 'Pretty well, thank you, sir' replied Oliver, with considerable hesitation.
-- 'Did you see any of these pretty things, my dear?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not help seeing that you were about five times as pretty as every other woman in the room.
-- Mr. Robinson's ask-ing him how he liked our Meryton assemblies, and whether he did not think there were a great many pretty women in the room, and WHICH he thought the prettiest?
-- I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.'
-- 'When I am in the country,' he replied, 'I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town it is pretty much the same.
-- However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was my lot first of all to fall into pretty good company in London, which does not always happen to such loose and misguided young fellows as I then was; the devil generally not omitting to lay some snare for them very early; but it was not so with me.
-- However, we got well in again, though with a great deal of labour and some danger; for the wind began to blow pretty fresh in the morning; but we were all very hungry.
-- Several times I was obliged to land for fresh water, after we had left this place; and once in particular, being early in morning, we came to an anchor under a little point of land, which was pretty high; and the tide beginning to flow, we lay still to go farther in.
-- And now I thought myself pretty well freighted, and began to think how I should get to shore with them, having neither sail, oar, nor rudder; and the least capful of wind would have overset all my navigation.
-- But here I had like to have dipped all my cargo into the sea again; for that shore lying pretty steep - that is to say sloping - there was no place to land, but where one end of my float, if it ran on shore, would lie so high, and the other sink lower, as before, that it would endanger my cargo again.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For though we do have to work, we make fun of ourselves, and are a pretty jolly set, as Jo would say.'
-- Everyone thought soberly for a minute, then Meg an-nounced, as if the idea was suggested by the sight of her own pretty hands, 'I shall give her a nice pair of gloves.'
-- I'll help you with the hard words, and they'' explain things if we don't understand,' whispered Beth, very much impressed by the pretty books and her sisters, example.
-- 'It's all right, dear, and a very pretty idea, quite sensible too, for no one can ever mistake now.
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