delightful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 令人高兴的，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How can Emma imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful infe-riority?
-- Harriet could not long resist so delightful a persuasion.
-- She would be such a delightful companion for Emma.'
-- It was a delightful visit; perfect, in being much too short.
-- She was very feverish and had a bad sore throat: Mrs. Goddard was full of care and af-fection, Mr. Perry was talked of, and Harriet herself was too ill and low to resist the authority which excluded her from this delightful engagement, though she could not speak of her loss without many tears.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba's companion, as a gauge of their reconciliation, had been granted a week's holiday to visit her sister, who was married to a thriving hurdler and cattle-crib-maker living in a delightful labyrinth of hazel copse not far beyond Yalbury.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the delightful excitement of a ball had made the pale face glow with color; if the delights of a luxurious life had brought the color to the wan cheeks that were slightly hollowed already; if love had put light into the sad eyes, then Victorine might have ranked among the fairest; but she lacked the two things which create woman a second time--pretty dresses and love-letters.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When happy, inanimate nature had the power of be- 75stowing on me the most delightful sensations.
-- They possessed a delightful house (for such it was in my eyes) and every luxury; they had a fire to warm them when chill and deli-cious viands when hungry; they were dressed in excellent clothes; and, still more, they enjoyed one another's com-pany and speech, interchanging each day looks of affection and kindness.
-- But the beauty and regularity of the new town of Edinburgh, its roman-tic castle and its environs, the most delightful in the world, Arthur's Seat, St. Bernard's Well, and the Pentland Hills compensated him for the change and filled him with cheer-fulness and admiration.
-- The wind, which had hitherto carried us along with amazing rapidity, sank at sunset to a light breeze; the soft 238 Frankensteinair just ruffled the water and caused a pleasant motion among the trees as we approached the shore, from which it wafted the most delightful scent of flowers and hay.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You must taste," said my sister, addressing the guests with her best grace--"you must taste, to finish with, such a delightful and delicious present of Uncle Pumblechook's!"
-- Mr. Pocket was out lecturing; for, he was a most delightful lecturer on domestic economy, and his treatises on the management of children and servants were considered the very best text-books on those themes.
-- We ate the whole of the toast, and drank tea in proportion, and it was delightful to see how warm and greasy we all got after it.
-- For, as I says to Biddy when the news of your being ill were brought by letter, which it were brought by the post, and being formerly single he is now married though underpaid for a deal of walking and shoe-leather, but wealth were not a object on his part, and marriage were the great wish of his hart--""It is so delightful to hear you, Joe!But I interrupt you in what you said to Biddy."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully.
-- Then, when the bird came home and had laid aside his burden, they sat 119down to table, and when they had finished their meal, they could sleep their fill till the following morning: and that was really a very delightful life.
-- He walked on; and as he walked through beautiful gar-dens he came to a delightful shady spot in which stood a couch; and he thought to himself, as he felt tired, that he would rest himself for a while, and gaze on the lovely scenes around him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither do I remember to have seen a more delightful prospect.
-- I answered, 'it was easy to be eloquent on so copious and delightful a subject, especially to me, who had been of-ten apt to amuse myself with visions of what I should do, if I were a king, a general, or a great lord: and upon this very case, I had frequently run over the whole system how I should employ myself, and pass the time, if I were sure to live for ever.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought a bath would be delightful after my long illness and sufferings.
-- After a delay of forty-eight hours, on the 30th of September a little vessel took us to Messina, where a few days of delightful and complete repose restored us to ourselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Such lemonades!Such oranges!Such d'licious broth and wine!Such Chicking!Oh, AIN'T it a delightful place to go and stop at!'
-- And if Mr Clennam was one of our visitors, and we were dancing to delightful music, and were all as gay and light-hearted as ever we could be!I wonder ' Such a vista of wonder opened out before her, that she sat looking up at the stars, quite lost, until Maggy was querulous again, and wanted to get up and walk.
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