great是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 伟大的； 重要的； 大量的； 很好的； 美好的，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：
-- In the main street at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture.
-- It was with great aston-ishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing.
-- 'You might have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years,' said Scrooge.
-- To his great astonishment the heavy bell went on from six to seven, and from seven to eight, and regularly up to twelve; then stopped.
-- All 28 Sons and Lovershe could make out was, that it was still very foggy and ex-tremely cold, and that there was no noise of people running to and fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and tak-en possession of the world.
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.
-- They had a sinister expression, under an old cocked-hat like a three-cornered spittoon, and over a great muffler for the chin and throat, which descended nearly to the wearer's knees.
-- As the bank passenger with an arm drawn through the leathern strap, which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against 17the next passenger, and driving him into his corner, when-ever the coach got a special jolt nodded in his place, with half-shut eyes, the little coach-windows, and the coach-lamp dimly gleaming through them, and the bulky bundle of opposite passenger, became the bank, and did a great stroke of business.
-- Then the strong-rooms underground, at Tellson's, with such of their valuable stores and secrets as were known to the passenger (and it was not a little that he knew about them), opened before him, and he went in among them with the great keys and the fee-bly-burning candle, and found them safe, and strong, and sound, and still, just as he had last seen them.
-- After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands to dig this wretched crea-ture out.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Andersen's Fairy Tales And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, 'Here are your Majesty's trousers!Here is the scarf!Here is the mantle!The whole suit is as light as a cobweb; one might fancy one has nothing at all on, when dressed in it; that, however, is the great virtue of this delicate cloth.'
-- Certainly, none of the Em-peror's various suits, had ever made so great an impression, as these invisible ones.
-- 'I want some one to take 10 Andersen's Fairy Talescare of the pigs, for we have a great many of them.'
-- Some wretched hovels for the Dutch sailors, resembling great boxes, and after which the place was named, lay about in confused disorder on the opposite bank.
-- But little Den-mark must take care what it is about, and not run counter to the moon; that great realm, that might in an ill-humor be-stir itself, and dash down a hail-storm in our faces, or force the Baltic to overflow the sides of its gigantic basin.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a great deal more that was delightful, only there's no putting it into words, or even expressing it in one's thoughts awake."
-- Though he had a great respect for his half-brother, an author well known to all Russia, he could not endure it when people treated him not as Konstantin Levin, but as the brother of the celebrated Koznishev.
-- "But all the same I admire your grandeur, and am proud that I've a friend in such a great person.
-- "That gentleman must be a man of great energy," said Grinevitch, when Levin had gone away.
-- "You have a great deal to complain of, haven't you, Stepan Arkadyevitch?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes.
-- "Only eighty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened.
-- This article made a great deal of noise, and, being copied into all the papers, seriously depressed the advocates of the rash tourist.
-- Bonds were issued, and made their appearance on 'Change; "Phileas Fogg bonds" were offered at par or at a premium, and a great business was done in them.
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