proficient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 熟练的， 精通的，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：
-- Her breath was, however, expended in vain; for, although dis-tinguished in her nation as a proficient in the art of abuse, she was permitted to work herself into such a fury as actual-ly to foam at the mouth, without causing a muscle to vibrate in the motionless figure of the stranger.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man as soon as ever he had come up with his chariot had dismounted twenty men, so proficient was he in all the arts of war he it was, O knight Patro-clus, that first drove a weapon into you, but he did not quite overpower you.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do tell me something amusing but not spiteful," said the ambassador's wife, a great proficient in the art of that elegant conversation called by the English, small talk.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting,gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that thesepleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.
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