highly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 高度地， 很， 非常； 赞许地，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He assumed an expression of gloomyintelligence (though I am persuaded he knew no more about thediscussion than I did), and highly approved of the discretion thathad been observed.
-- I extolled Traddles inreply, as highly as I could; for I felt that Steerforth rather slightedhim.
-- Peggotty had considered herself highly privileged in beingallowed to participate in these labours; and, although she stillretained something of her old sentiment of awe in reference to myaunt, had received so many marks of encouragement andconfidence, that they were the best friends possible.
-- I think I observed myself,that it was highly creditable to all concerned.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mild-ness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but di-rected chiefly by her own.
-- It was, indeed, a highly prized letter.
-- They were a family of the name of Martin, whomEmma well knew by character, as renting a large farm of Mr. Knightley, and residing in the parish of Donwell very creditably, she believed she knew Mr. Knightley thought highly of them but they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect.
-- It would be an interesting, and certainly a very kind undertaking; highly becoming her own situation in life, her leisure, and powers.
-- Miss Woodhouse was so great a personage in Highbury, that the prospect of the introduction had given as much panic as pleasure; but the humble, grateful little girl went off with highly gratified feelings, delighted with the affability with which Miss Woodhouse had treated her all the evening, and actually shaken hands with her at last!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A man wanted to once," she said, in a highly experienced tone, and the image of Gabriel Oak, as the farmer, rose before her.
-- Being a woman with some good sense in reasoning on subjects wherein her heart was not involved, Bathsheba genuinely repented that a freak which had owed its existence as much to Liddy as to herself, should ever have been undertaken, to disturb the placidity of a man she respected too highly to deliberately tease.
-- Bathsheba's adventurous spirit was beginning to find some grains of relish in these highly novel proceedings.
-- Too much liquor is bad, and leads us to that horned man in the smoky house; but after all, many people haven't the gift of enjoying a wet, and since we be highly favoured with a power that way, we should make the most o't."
-- As soon as the tent was completed the band struck up highly stimulating harmonies, and the announcement was publicly made, Black Bess standing in a conspicuous position on the outside, as a living proof, if proof were wanted, of the truth of the oracular utterances from the stage over which the people were to enter.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She drew up a prospectus headed MAISON VAUQUER, in which it was asserted that hers was "_one of the oldest and most highly recommended boarding- houses in the Latin Quarter_."
-- Empty-headed people who babble about their own affairs because they have nothing else to occupy them, naturally conclude that if people say nothing of their doings it is because their doings will not bear being talked about; so the highly respectable merchant became a scoundrel, and the late beau was an old rogue.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a sense of justice in my father's upright mind which rendered it neces-sary that he should approve highly to love strongly.
-- She paused, weeping, and then continued, 'I thought with horror, my sweet lady, that you should believe your Justine, whom your blessed aunt had so highly honoured, and whom you loved, was a creature capable of a crime which none but the devil himself could have perpetrated.
-- September 5th A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things," he grinned.
-- "Eavesdroppers often hear highly instructive things," jibed a memory.
-- She had a round, highly colored face inwhich was combined good-natured shrewdness and the habit of command.
-- She leaped to her feet, her heart hammering so wildly she feared she could not stand, hammering with the thrill ofbeing the center of attention again, of being the most highly desired girl present and oh, best of all, at the prospect ofdancing again.
-- Betrayed, too, by words and catchphrases, prejudices and hatreds coming from the mouths of those highly placed, those men whom we respected andrevered 'King Cotton, Slavery, States' Rights, Damn Yankees.'
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