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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Paganel, highly incensed at his geographical knowledge being brought in question, and even jested about, allowed his ill-humor to get the better of him, and said:"Know, sir, that my books have no need of such ERRATA."
-- The flesh of the NANDOU is highly esteemed, and Thalcave felt bound to contribute his share of the common repast.
-- After an hour devoted to visiting Carisbrook, the two visitors rejoined their companions, and crossed a highly cultivated district.
-- The supper would have been very scant, if McNabbs had not killed a large rat, the mus conditor, which is highly spoken of as an article of diet.
-- His nervous organization, highly excited, could not submit to confinement between four narrow bulkheads.
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:
-- But the Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
-- As I looked from their windows at the interminable granite-flecked moor rolling unbroken to the farthest horizon I could not but marvel at what could have brought this highly educated man and this beautiful woman to live in such a place.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The prince's conversation was artless and confiding to a degree, and the servant could not help feeling that as from visitor to common serving-man this state of things was highly improper.
-- Now, as to your plans in the house, or rather in the family of Gania here my young friend, whom I hope you will know better his mother and sister have prepared two or three rooms for lodgers, and let them to highly recommended young fellows, with board and attendance.
-- She became so excited and agitated during all these ex-planations and confessions that General Epanchin was highly gratified, and considered the matter satisfacto-rily arranged once for all.
-- A strange rumour began to circulate, meanwhile; no less than that the respectable and highly respected General Ep-anchin was himself so fascinated by Nastasia Philipovna that his feeling for her amounted almost to passion.
-- Hardly, however, had the old lady begun about her ' highly gratified feelings,' and so on, when Nastasia left her, and flounced into a chair by Gania's side in the corner by the window, and cried: 'Where's your study?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Dr. Kemp was a tall and slender young man, with flaxen hair and a moustache almost white, and the work he was upon would earn him, he hoped, the fellowship of the Royal Society, so highly did he think of it.
-- All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
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:
-- Still is this a breed highly esteemed and, as you witness, much honored with the burdens it is often destined to bear.'
-- From the moment that Munro left his own works to appear in front of his enemy's, his air had been grand, and his step and countenance highly military.
-- He seized the highly prized jewel; and as he proclaimed the fact, it vanished from the eyes of the wondering scout, who in vain looked for it on the ground, long after it was warmly pressed against the beating heart of Duncan.
-- The read-er probably knows, if enough has not already been gleaned form this narrative, that the Delaware, or Lenape, claimed to be the progenitors of that numerous people, who once were masters of most of the eastern and northern states of America, of whom the community of the Mohicans was an ancient and highly honored member.
-- Such an extraordinary sign of confidence was received by the orator as a highly favorable omen; and though the animal retreated a little precipitately, he was lavish of his thanks and commendations.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole suit was rather tight-fitting, and was finished off with heavy-soled tan shoes, highly polished, and the grey fedora hat.
-- In the shop next day she heard the highly coloured reports which girls give of their trivial amusements.
-- Not alone in sensitive, highly organised natures is such a mental conflict possible.
-- It is instinct which recalls the criminal--it is instinct (where highly organised reasoning is absent) which gives the criminal his feeling of danger, his fear of wrong.
-- When it actually arrived, Hurstwood, who had got his mind into such a state where a thunderclap and raging storm would have seemed highly appropriate, was rather relieved to find that it was a plain, ordinary day.
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