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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil an ordinary specimen of those smoothly-outlined protuberances of the globe which may remain undisturbed on some great day of confusion, when far grander heights and dizzy granite precipices topple down.
-- A close examination of the ground hereabout, even by the wan starlight only, revealed how a portion of what would have been casually called a wild slope had been appropriated by Farmer Oak for his great purpose this winter.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- FATHER GORIOT BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated by Ellen Marriage To the great and illustrious Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a token of admiration for his works and genius.
-- Beneath the wall of the house front there lies a channel, a fathom wide, paved with cobble-stones, and beside it runs a graveled walk bordered by geraniums and oleanders and pomegranates set in great blue and white glazed earthenware pots.
-- The hearth is always so clean and neat that it is evident that a fire is only kindled there on great occasions; the stone chimney-piece is adorned by a couple of vases filled with faded artificial flowers imprisoned under glass shades, on either side of a bluish marble clock in the very worst taste.
-- He belonged to the number of young men who know as children that their parents' hopes are centered on them, and deliberately prepare themselves for a great career, subordinating their studies from the first to this end, carefully watching the indications of the course of events, calculating the probable turn that affairs will take, that they may be the first to profit by them.
-- Had she been a second-hand clothes dealer, a frequenter of the backstairs of great houses, or had she been merely a courtesan?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can, even now, remember the hour from which I dedicated myself to this great enterprise.
-- And now, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose?
-- The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.
-- When my guest was a little recovered I had great trou-ble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose res-toration evidently depended upon entire repose.
-- August 19, 17 Yesterday the stranger said to me, 'You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and un-paralleled misfortunes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arrangements had not yet beencompleted for obtaining the full quota of horses, but those who had horses performed what they imagined to be cavalrymaneuvers in the field behind the courthouse, kicked up a great deal of dust, yelled themselves hoarse and waved theRevolutionary-war swords that had been taken down from parlor walls.
-- And what need had he of these things in a new country where the most ignorant ofbogtrotters had made great fortunes?
-- But, when Mrs. Wilkes, "a great lady and with a rare gift forsilence," as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down thedriveway.
-- "You're not a rich man and you haven't a great family," said James.
-- "I've made me money and I can make a great family.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GREAT EXPECTATIONSChapter IMy father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
-- A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg.
-- I am a keeping that young man from harming of you at the present moment, with great difficulty.
-- But presently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again towards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and picking his way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there, for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in.
-- Chapter IIMy sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbors because she had brought me up "by hand."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he set out once more on his journey, sighing, and in great despair, when on a sudden his friend the fox met him, and said, 'You see now what has happened on account of your not listening to my counsel.
-- But when the son looked at the horse, he thought it a great pity to put the leathern sad-dle upon it.
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