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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's vexing," said Lord Edward, "for if papers are inside, they'll be in a pretty state!"
-- The girl was about sixteen years of age; her tired pretty face, and sorrowful eyes, and resigned but courageous look, as well as her neat though poor attire, made a favorable impression.
-- CHAPTER VI AN UNEXPECTED PASSENGERTHE ladies passed the whole of the first day of the voyage in their berths, for there was a heavy swell in the sea, and toward evening the wind blew pretty fresh, and the DUNCAN tossed and pitched considerably.
-- "Well, Olbinett, my friend, we must think of breakfast, and that pretty quickly.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was enough to secure his good opinion; for to be unaffected was all that a pretty girl could want to make her mind as captivating as her person.
-- Mrs. Jennings had been anxious to see Colonel Brandon well married, ever since her connection with Sir John first brought him to her knowledge; and she was always anxious to get a good husband for every pretty girl.
-- On this point Sir John could give more certain intelligence; and he told them that Mr. Willoughby had no property of his own in the country; that he resided there only while he was visiting the old lady at Allenham Court, to whom he was related, and whose possessions he was to inherit; adding, "Yes, yes, he is very well worth catching I can tell you, Miss Dashwood; he has a pretty little estate of his own in Somersetshire besides; and if I were you, I would not give him up to my younger sister, in spite of all this tumbling down hills.
-- Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkably pretty figure.
-- "Well, Marianne," said Elinor, as soon as he had left them, "for ONE morning I think you have done pretty well.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class--two generations removed from the emigrant.
-- They were pretty in the main, some even handsome, with an air of independence and indifference which added, in the case of the more favoured, a certain piquancy.
-- On Saturday Carrie went out by herself--first toward the river, which interested her, and then back along Jackson Street, which was then lined by the pretty houses and fine lawns which subsequently caused it to be made into a boulevard.
-- "Oh," said Carrie, "it's pretty hard.
-- Now she would have a nice new jacket!Now she would buy a nice pair of pretty button shoes.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me.
-- Miss Watson would say, 'Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;' and 'Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry set up straight;' and pretty soon she would say, 'Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry why don't you try to be- have?'
-- Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoul-der, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up.
-- Miss Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him.
-- Pretty soon Jim says: 'Say, who is you?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Saying nothing more, Pinocchio jumped on the Pigeon's back and, as he settled himself, he cried out gayly: "Gallop on, gallop on, my pretty steed!I'm in a great hurry."
-- Won't you try, pretty little Snail, to free me from this terrible torture?"
-- "Wait, my pretty Donkey, I'll teach you not to be so particular."
-- But will you tell how you succeeded in buying this pretty little cottage?"
-- "Answer me quickly, pretty Snail, where have you left my Fairy?
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