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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their examination then commenced, after Paganel had settled his spectacles firmly on his nose, drawn himself up to his full height, and put on a solemn voice becoming to a professor.
-- Occasionally a swarm of par-roquets flew along a distant path, and lighted it up for an instant with gay colors; but otherwise, solemn silence reigned in this vast green temple, and the tramp of the horses, a few words exchanged with each other by the riders, the grinding noise of the wheels, and from time to time a cry from Ayrton to stir up his lazy team, were the only sounds which disturbed this immense solitude.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It strikes me solemn to think of it.'
-- I give you my solemn word upon that.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabetha Prokofievna sometimes informed the girls that they were a little too candid in this matter, but in spite of their outward deference to their mother these three young women, in solemn conclave, had long agreed to modify the unquestioning obedience which they had been in the habit of according to her; and Mrs. General Epanchin had judged it better to say nothing about it, though, of course, she was well aware of the fact.
-- 'And how terribly solemn you are about it!'
-- He immediately changed his tone, and started off on a long and solemn explanation.
-- It was rumoured that he had purposely wait-ed for the solemn occasion of a large evening party at the house of his future bride, at which he was introduced to sev-eral eminent persons, in order publicly to make known his ideas and opinions, and thereby insult the 'big-wigs,' and to throw over his bride as offensively as possible; and that, re-sisting the servants who were told off to turn him out of the house, he had seized and thrown down a magnificent china vase.
-- Before entering he stopped on the threshold, raised his hand as if making a solemn vow, and cried: 'I won't drink!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the most solemn promise that I can give to any god.
-- Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Priam before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bid-ding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people.
-- Think that the Achaeans and Trojans have sworn to a solemn covenant, and that they have each been numbered the Trojans by the roll of their householders, and we by companies of ten; think further that each of our companies desired to have a Trojan householder to pour out their wine; we are so greatly more in number that full many a company would have to go without its cup-bearer.
-- Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby you Trojans shall stay here in Troy, while the others go home to Argos and the land of the Achaeans.'
-- Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his own home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain came half round, and regarded him with the dull and solemn eyes of a drunken man.
-- 'You're a solemn prig, Prendick, a silly ass!You're always fearing and fancying.
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：
-- The stranger regarded his interrogator a moment in won-der; and then, losing every mark of self-satisfaction in an expression of solemn humility, he answered: 'Of offense, I hope there is none, to either party: ofdefense, I make none by God's good mercy, having com-mitted no palpable sin since last entreating his pardoning grace.
-- He listened like one who was convinced, and resumed his narrative in his former solemn manner.
-- 'Graves bring solemn feelings over the mind,' returned the scout, a good deal touched at the calm suffering of his companion; 'and they often aid a man in his good - intentions; though, for myself, I expect to leave my own bones unburied, to bleach in the woods, or to be torn asunder by the wolves.
-- Chapter 6 'Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God', he says, with solemn air.
-- The air was solemn and slow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- interposed the mother, putting down her tea-cup and brushing the crumbs out of her lap, preparatory to making a solemn declaration.
-- A third, who in the general confusion could secure no other listener, fastened herself upon a young woman still unmarried who happened to be amongst them, and conjured her, as she valued her own peace of mind and happiness to profit by this solemn occasion, to take example from the weakness of Mrs Quilp, and from that time forth to direct her whole thoughts to taming and subduing the rebellious spirit of man.
-- To this Ladies' Seminary, then, Richard Swiveller hied, with designs obnoxious to the peace of the fair Sophia, who, arrayed in virgin white, embellished by no ornament but one blushing rose, received him on his arrival, in the midst of very elegant not to say brilliant preparations; such as the embellishment of the room with the little flower-pots which always stood on the window-sill outside, save in windy weather when they blew into the area; the choice attire of the day-scholars who were allowed to grace the festival; the unwonted curls of Miss Jane Wackles who had kept her head during the whole of the preceding day screwed up tight in a yellow play-bill; and the solemn gentility and stately bearing of the old lady and her eldest daughter, which struck Mr Swiveller as being uncommon but made no further impression upon him.
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