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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the hardest task in the world to keep my hands off their pretty laughing faces.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn't have had any hand in the mischief.
-- 'Ye-es, pretty well some poetry,' Alice said doubtfully.
-- 'You must hit the trees pretty often, I should think,' she said.
-- Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.
-- 'There he goes!Right on his head as usual!However, he gets on again pretty easily that comes of having so many things hung round the horse ' So she went on talking to herself, as she watched the horse walking leisurely along the road, and the Knight tumbling off, first on one side and then on the other.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.
-- And now you see, mate, I'm pretty low, and deserted by all; and Jim, you'll bring me one noggin of rum, now, won't you, matey?"
-- "A pretty rum go if squire ain't to talk for Dr. Livesey, I should think."
-- Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.
-- There was a street on each side and an open door on both, which made the large, low room pretty clear to see in, in spite of clouds of tobacco smoke.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But we will go whether or no; we have got a captain who is pretty wide-awake."
-- thought I, "a whale with the strength of a cavalry regiment would be a pretty whale!"
-- "Not quite," sharply replied the Canadian, "but pretty near, at all events.
-- The sea was pretty calm; a slight breeze blew on land.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very pretty that."
-- He had everything so nice, such pretty cups and plates, painted with mauve-lustre and green, also shapely bowls and glass plates, and old spoons, on a woven cloth of pale grey and black and purple.
-- said Gudrun, sotto voce, looking at the motley of guests, "there's a pretty crowd if you like!Imagine yourself in the midst of that, my dear."
-- "We're in a pretty fix if we can't," said Gudrun.
-- "Can you manage a boat pretty well?"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A good subject to start!And that pretty girl widow, I should like to know her history: whether she be a native of the country, or, as is more probable, an exotic that the surly INDIGENAE will not recognise for kin.'
-- Heathcliff bore his degradation pretty well at first, because Cathy taught him what she learnt, and worked or played with him in the fields.
-- The master's bad ways and bad companions formed a pretty example for Catherine and Heathcliff.
-- 'He hates you they all hate you that's the truth!A happy family you have; and a pretty state you're come to!
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