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：
-- Once at Villa Praya you might manage to find pretty good quarters.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I suppose it is pretty thick, now that you mention it.'
-- 'My good fellow, this is a very serious business, and you may find yourself in a pretty bad position if you try to hide anything from me.
-- MY DEAR HOLMES, My previous letters and tele-grams have kept you pretty well up to date as to all that has occurred in this most God-forsaken corner of the world.
-- Between ourselves there are pretty clear signs that this will not be wanting if the lady is will-ing, for I have seldom seen a man more infatuated with a woman than he is with our beautiful neighbour, Miss Sta-pleton.
-- Sitting in the billiard-room I more than once heard the sound of voices raised, and I had a pretty good idea what the point was which was under discussion.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This sort of character is met with pretty frequently in a certain class.
-- She was pretty then 芒聙娄 but now!芒聙娄 Totski laughed angrily when he thought how short-sighted he had been.
-- 'Yes; I must say that I am pretty hungry, thanks very much.'
-- She never had been pretty even before; but her eyes were quiet, innocent, kind eyes.
-- 'Well, it is troublesome, rather,' said the latter; 'but I suppose it will 'pay' pretty well.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you've pretty near broken my toe.
-- Pretty straight story, eh?
-- "Yes," said Kemp, "that is pretty plain sailing."
-- I saw pretty clearly this was a transient mood, due to overwork and want of sleep, and that either by drugs or rest it would be possible to recover my energies.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I perceived pretty clearly that I had not the stamina either to resist what the captain chose to do to expel me, or to force myself upon Montgomery and his companion.
-- I jumped out again pretty quickly, for the water was almost boiling.
-- 'A pretty story,' said I.
-- It seemed to me rather a pretty little creature; and as Montgomery stated that it never destroyed the turf by bur-rowing, and was very cleanly in its habits, I should imagine it might prove a convenient substitute for the common rab-bit in gentlemen's parks.
-- 'It is a pretty sight!'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Twas done with Indian skill,' said the scout laughing in-wardly, but with vast satisfaction; 'and 'twas a pretty sight to behold!Though an arrow is a near shot, and needs a knife to finish the work.'
-- A pretty degree of knighthood, sir, is that which can be bought with sugar hogsheads!and then your twopenny marquisates.
-- My life on it, we see their pretty little feet again, before many rods go by.'
-- So, after I had shot the imps, I got in pretty nigh to the lodges without further commotion.
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