solemn是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 严肃的; 庄严的, 隆重的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.
-- As the last stroke ceased to vibrate, he remembered the pre-diction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming, like a mist along the ground, towards him.
-- The Phantom was exactly as it had been, but he dreaded that he saw new meaning in its solemn shape.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beat-ing heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is re-ferable to this.
-- That head Mr. Attorney-General concluded by demanding of them, in the name of everything he could think of with a round turn in it, and on the faith of his solemn assevera-tion that he already considered the prisoner as good as dead and gone.
-- The slight devices with which she cheated herself into the show of a belief that they would soon be reunited the little preparations for his speedy return, the setting aside of his chair and his books these, and the solemn prayer at night for one dear prisoner especially, among the many unhappy souls in prison and the shadow of death were almost the only outspoken reliefs of her heavy mind.
-- These solemn words, which had been read at his father's grave, arose in his mind as he went down the dark streets, among the heavy shadows, with the moon and the clouds sailing on high above him.
-- With a solemn interest in the lighted windows where the people were going to rest, forgetful through a few calm hours of the horrors surrounding them; in the towers of the churches, where no prayers were said, for the popular revul-sion had even travelled that length of self-destruction from years of priestly impostors, plunderers, and profligates; in the distant burial-places, reserved, as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all the working of the Guillotine; with a solemn interest in the whole life and death of the city settling down to its short nightly pause in fury; Sydney Carton crossed the Seine again for the lighter streets.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his whole face suddenly bore the solemn rigidity of the dead, and his expression did not change during the whole time of the drive home.
-- On the way home the children felt that something solemn had happened, and were very sedate.
-- Chapter 22 Stepan Arkadyevitch, with the same somewhat solemn expression with which he used to take his presidential chair at his board, walked into Alexey Alexandrovitch's room.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch stood in a comically solemn pose beside his wife, took the holy picture, and telling Levin to bow down to the ground, he blessed him with his kindly, ironical smile, and kissed him three times; Darya Alexandrovna did the same, and immediately vas in a hurry to get off, and again plunged into the intricate question of the destinations of the various carriages.
-- "Blessed be the name of the Lord," the solemn syllables rang out slowly one after another, setting the air quivering with waves of sound.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So clean, well-arranged, solemn a mansion pleased him; it seemed to him like a snail's shell, lighted and warmed by gas, which sufficed for both these purposes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared, inanswer to my inquiries, that nobody had the least idea of theetymology of this terrible verb passive to be gormed; but that theyall regarded it as constituting a most solemn imprecation.
-- But these solemn lessonswhich succeeded those, I remember as the death-blow at my peace,and a grievous daily drudgery and misery.
-- So, when we reached home, I dropped outof the chaise behind, as quickly as possible, that I might not be intheir company before those solemn windows, looking blindly onme like closed eyes once bright.
-- Ionly recollect that underneath some white covering on the bed,with a beautiful cleanliness and freshness all around it, thereseemed to me to lie embodied the solemn stillness that was in thehouse; and that when she would have turned the cover gentlyback, I cried, 'Oh no!oh no!'
-- Now there is a solemn hush, which we have brought fromhome with what is resting in the mould; and while we standbareheaded, I hear the voice of the clergyman, sounding remote inthe open air, and yet distinct and plain, saying, 'I am theResurrection and the Life, saith the Lord!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All manner of solemn nonsense was talked on the subject, but I believed none of it.
-- Do not let us be too solemn on the business.
-- There has been a solemn engagement between them ever since October formed at Weymouth, and kept a secret from every body.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the solemn calm of the awakening morn that note was heard by Gabriel, beating with unusual violence and rapidity.
-- The solemn and reserved yeoman again closed the letter, and stuck it in the frame of the glass.
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