prominent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 突起的， 凸出的； 突出的， 杰出的，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：
-- His prominent and deeply-furrowed brow, his fierce look, and sinister expression, gave him a formidable aspect.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She gave the prince a ceremonious bow and solemnly took up a prominent position near the big round table.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had been a mere lad then, and Moreau was, I suppose, about fifty, a prominent and masterful physiologist, well-known in scientific circles for his extraordinary imagination and his brutal directness in discussion.
-- It was in the silly season, and a prominent editor, a cousin of the temporary labora-tory-assistant, appealed to the conscience of the nation.
-- The men aboard-ship, he told me, seemed at first just as strange to him as the Beast Men seemed to me, unnaturally long in the leg, flat in the face, prominent in the forehead, suspicious, danger-ous, and cold-hearted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now that I have carried this history so far in my own character and introduced these personages to the reader, I shall for the convenience of the narrative detach myself from its further course, and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves.
-- In this flight of fancy, Mr Swiveller was assisted by a deceptive piece of furniture, in reality a bedstead, but in semblance a bookcase, which occupied a prominent situation in his chamber and seemed to defy suspicion and challenge inquiry.
-- A rickety table, with spare bundles of papers, yellow and ragged from long carriage in the pocket, ostentatiously displayed upon its top; a couple of stools set face to face on opposite sides of this crazy piece of furniture; a treacherous old chair by the fire-place, whose withered arms had hugged full many a client and helped to squeeze him dry; a second-hand wig box, used as a depository for blank writs and declarations and other small forms of law, once the sole contents of the head which belonged to the wig which belonged to the box, as they were now of the box itself; two or three common books of practice; a jar of ink, a pounce box, a stunted hearth-broom, a carpet trodden to shreds but still clinging with the tightness of desperation to its tacks these, with the yellow wainscot of the walls, the smoke-discoloured ceiling, the dust and cobwebs, were among the most prominent decorations of the office of Mr Sampson Brass.
-- His mother was not a little startled on learning what service was required of her, and presently fell into a confusion of ideas, of which the most prominent were that it was a great honour and dignity to ride in a post-chaise, and that it was a moral impossibility to leave the children behind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Further behind came the short-necked Prince Korchagin, his shoulders thrown back; then Missy, Misha, their cousin, and a diplomat Osten, unfamiliar to Nekhludoff, with his long neck and prominent Adam's apple and an ever cheerful appearance.
-- The general, bloated, with a potato nose and prominent bumps on his forehead, hairless pate and bags under his eyes, a man of sanguine temperament, was reclining in a silk morning gown, and with a cigarette in his hand, was drinking tea from a silver saucer.
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：
-- The dog looked up at her with grievous resignation in its large, prominent eyes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It stood prominent six feet, and could not be less 108 Gulliver's Travelsthan sixteen in circumference.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit was this lady's name; and she was a prominent figure in attendance on Mr. Bounderby's car, as it rolled along in triumph with the Bully of humility inside.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The skull of this fossil being is a perfect ovoid without any remarkable or prominent development of the cheekbones, and without any projection of the jaw.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned his full, hazel, slightly prominent eyes on her in a look of pure detachment.
-- He looked at her with a furtive apprehension in his rath-er prominent pale eyes.
-- So his rather prominent pale eyes had a queer look, fur-tive, and yet a little cruel, so cold: and at the same time, almost impudent.
-- Connie marched in to Clifford's room, furious with him, furious with his pale, over-wrought fee and prominent eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maggy being broad awake, and in the act of distantly gloating over the fruit and cakes with chuckles of anticipation, Clennam made the best diversion in his power by pouring her out a glass of wine, which she drank in a series of loud smacks; putting her hand upon her windpipe after every one, and saying, breathless, with her eyes in a prominent state, 'Oh, ain't it d'licious!Ain't it hospitally!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie did not read all this while he watched her feed the peacocks, but he saw enough to satisfy and interest him, and carried away a pretty little picture of a bright-faced girl standing in the sunshine, which brought out the soft hue of her dress, the fresh color of her cheeks, the golden gloss of her hair, and made her a prominent figure in the pleas-ant scene.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were his prominent features; the tokens whereby, even in the limitless, uncharted seas, he revealed his identity, at a long distance, to those who knew him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I say, Drouet," said Mr. Harry Quincel, an individual who was very prominent in this local branch of the Elks, "you're the man that can help us out."
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