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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I feel almost too much to think," he said, with a solemn simplicity.
-- But, Mr. Boldwood, hesitation on so high a matter is honourable in any woman, and I don't want to give a solemn promise to-night.
-- Intended gaieties would insist upon appearing like solemn grandeurs, the organization of the whole effort was carried out coldly, by hirelings, and a shadow seemed to move about the rooms, saying that the proceedings were unnatural to the place and the lone man who lived therein, and hence not good.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glass door was opened for him; the servants were as solemn as jackasses under the curry comb.
-- In spite of the most solemn promises, daily renewed, M. d'Ajuda was playing a part, and the 莽卢卢42 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 Vicomtesse was eager to be deceived.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverber-ated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.
-- He made, at that moment, a solemn vow to deliver him and then looked around for the means.
-- Turning to him, therefore, I said, 'I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe forever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile.'
-- I was bound by a solemn promise which I had not yet fulfilled and dared not break, or if I did, what manifold miseries might not impend over me and my devoted fam-183ily!Could I enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing me to the ground?
-- I left the room, and locking the door, made a solemn vow in my own heart never to resume my labours; and then, with trembling steps, I sought my own apartment.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when Scarlettdiscovered him jumping fences after his solemn promise to his wife, or learned the exact amount of his losses at poker,as she always did from County gossip, she refrained from mentioning the fact at the supper table in the artfully artlessmanner Suellen had.
-- There were dozens of war weddings in the County and there was little timefor the sorrow of parting, for everyone was too busy and excited for either solemn thoughts or tears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had believed in the best parlor as a most elegant saloon; I had believed in the front door, as a mysterious portal of the Temple of State whose solemn opening was attended with a sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence.
-- It was tempting to think of that expensive Mercenary publicly airing his boots in the archway of the Blue Boar's posting-yard; it was almost solemn to imagine him casually produced in the tailor's shop, and confounding the disrespectful senses of Trabb's boy.
-- We shut our outer door on these solemn occasions, in order that we might not be interrupted.
-- On a certain occasion when the Finches were assembled in force, and when good feeling was being promoted in the usual manner by nobody's agreeing with anybody else, the presiding Finch called the Grove to order, forasmuch as Mr. Drummle had not yet toasted a lady; which, according to the solemn constitution of the society, it was the brute's turn to do that day.
-- He laid his hands upon my shoulders, and added in a solemn whisper: "Avail yourself of this evening to lay hold of his portable property.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
-- 'Lastly, That, upon his solemn oath to observe all the above articles, the said man-mountain shall have a daily al-lowance of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 of our subjects, with free access to our royal person, and other marks of our favour.
-- But, when he goes abroad on solemn days, he is at-tended, for state, by a military guard of five hundred horse, which, indeed, I thought was the most splendid sight that could be ever beheld, till I saw part of his army in battalia, whereof I shall find another occasion to speak.
-- On the 6th of May, 1709, I took a solemn leave of his majesty, and all my friends.
-- However, about ten days before their death, which they seldom fail in computing, they return the visits that have been made them by those who are nearest in the neighbourhood, being car-ried in a convenient sledge drawn by Yahoos; which vehicle they use, not only upon this occasion, but when they grow old, upon long journeys, or when they are lamed by any ac-cident: and therefore when the dying Houyhnhnms return those visits, they take a solemn leave of their friends, as if they were going to some remote part of the country, where they designed to pass the rest of their lives.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Twere a solemn promess.
-- Standing hand-in-hand, they both looked down upon the solemn countenance.
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