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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My surprise was slightly modified when I knew that this tranquil and solemn personage was only a hunter of the eider duck, the down of which is, after all, the greatest source of the Icelanders' wealth.
-- In my state of mind, the idea came into my head that one day perhaps, when my fossil bones were found, their discovery so far below the level of the earth might give rise to solemn and interesting scientific discussions.
-- Deep and solemn silence reigned in the tunnel.
-- What did he mean by these awful words--what did he mean by this terrible calm, this solemn smile?
-- I asked, speaking in a low and solemn voice.
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：
-- 'Oh, but listen!Don't interrupt the great man's solemn words! ''The present type of order in the world has risen from an unimaginable part, and will find its grave in an un-imaginable future.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this nature, that several solemn lords had attained the reputation of being quite unearthly prodigies of business, solely from having practised, How not to do it, as the head of the Circumlocution Office.
-- In the course of a couple of hours the noble Refrigerator, at no time less than a hundred years behind the period, got about five centuries in arrears, and delivered solemn political oracles appropriate to that epoch.
-- Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.
-- With that he stood on the landing, watching the old man down: and when he came into the room again, said, with a solemn satisfaction on him, 'A melancholy sight that, Mr Clennam, though one has the consolation of knowing that he doesn't feel it himself.
-- How he had, thereupon, sworn his landlord, Mr Rugg, to secrecy in a solemn manner, and taken him into Moleing partnership.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo went and sat on one arm of the chair, looking as if she thought they were about to join in some very solemn affair.
-- On one occasion, Mr. Pickwick put on a pair of spectacles with-out any glass, rapped upon the table, hemmed, and having stared hard at Mr. Snodgrass, who was tilting back in his chair, till he arranged himself properly, began to read: 'THE PICKWICK PORTFOLIO’ MAY 20, 18 - POET'S CORNER ANNIVERSARY ODE Again we meet to celebrate With badge and solemn rite, Our fifty-second anniversary, In Pickwick Hall, tonight.
-- 'Teddy is a remarkable boy, and can't be taken as a sam-ple of other boys,' said Amy, in a tone of solemn conviction, which would have convulsed the 'remarkable boy' if he had heard it.
-- The young lady herself received the news as tidings of great joy, went about in a solemn sort of rapture, and began to sort her col-ors and pack her pencils that evening, leaving such trifles as clothes, money, and passports to those less absorbed in vi-sions of art than herself.
-- Here an ancient monastery, whence the solemn chanting of the monks came down to them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towards the concluding stanzas, burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy "The ribs and terrors in the whale,Arched over me a dismal gloom,While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by,And lift me deepening down to doom.
-- As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements, and peering in upon us silent, solitary twain; the storm booming without in solemn swells; I began to be sensible of strange feelings.
-- But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.
-- For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb.
-- * * * * * *"'This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists,' said Don Sebastian, gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The board were sitting in solemn conclave, when Mr. Bumble rushed into the room in great excitement, and addressing the gentleman in the high chair, said, 'Mr.
-- Oliver did see it in his mind's eye as distinctly as if he had not altered his position; b ut he thought it better not to worry the kind old lady; so he smiled gently when she looked at him; and Mrs. Bedwin, satisfied that he felt more comfortable, salted and broke bits of toasted bread into the broth, with all the bustle befitting so solemn a preparation.
-- It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.
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