serious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 严肃的； 主要的； 严重的， 危急的； 认真的，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：
-- There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious de-light of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Pross's fidelity of belief in Sol-omon (deducting a mere trifle for this slight mistake) was quite a serious matter with Mr. Lorry, and had its weight in his good opinion of her.
-- Apart from the personal discomfort of being so attended, and apart from such considerations of present danger as arose from one of the patriots being chronical-ly drunk, and carrying his musket very recklessly, Charles Darnay did not allow the restraint that was laid upon him to awaken any serious fears in his breast; for, he reasoned with himself that it could have no reference to the merits of an individual case that was not yet stated, and of repre-sentations, confirmable by the prisoner in the Abbaye, that were not yet made.
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：
-- She always attends to her own serious business herself, as then she is sure of having it done properly.
-- Those persons who were sitting nearest him and beard his speech, stared at him in wonderment; and one of them rose, took off his hat respectfully, and said with a serious countenance, 'You are no doubt a very learned man, Mon-sieur.'
-- The little robber maiden looked at her with a serious air, nodded her head slightly, and said, 'They shall not kill you, even if I am angry with you: then I will do it myself"; and she dried Gerda's eyes, and put both her hands in the hand-some muff, which was so soft and warm.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And his face expressed serious hesitation.
-- To say nothing of the young men who danced at the Moscow balls being almost all in love with Kitty, two serious suitors had already this first winter made their appearance: Levin, and immediately after his departure, Count Vronsky.
-- Levin's appearance at the beginning of the winter, his frequent visits, and evident love for Kitty, had led to the first serious conversations between Kitty's parents as to her future, and to disputes between them.
-- The princess for her part, going round the question in the manner peculiar to women, maintained that Kitty was too young, that Levin had done nothing to prove that he had serious intentions, that Kitty felt no great attraction to him, and other side issues; but she did not state the principal point, which was that she looked for a better match for her daughter, and that Levin was not to her liking, and she did not understand him.
-- "There's one thing I want to say..." began the princess, and from her serious and alert face, Kitty guessed what it would be.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager," replied Phileas Fogg, solemnly.
-- This matter of fuelling steamers is a serious one at such distances from the coal-mines; it costs the Peninsular Company some eight hundred thousand pounds a year.
-- "I want to have a serious talk with you."
-- "A serious talk!"
-- He had a serious decision to make.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the rest because there was nothing serious the matter, and he was nearer than Dr. Hesselink at Groningen.
-- Most of them grunted, "The Old Man is erupting again," and forgot him, but one ex-major went out every evening to confer with serious ladies who wore distinguished frocks, who sobbed over "the loss of spiritual and intellectual horse-power through lack of co-ordination," and who went home in limousines.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The father and mother spent their evenings in reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a serious charac-ter.
-- It is not serious at all.
-- 'Listen, I want to ask you a serious question,' the student said hotly.
-- 'In the most serious and essential matters,' Pyotr Petro-vitch replied, as though delighted at the question.
-- He was sitting straight and motionless on a chair, with a silent, serious face, with his legs stretched out straight before him heels together and toes turned out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had anydoubt of him, I suppose this halfawakened it; but I am inclined tobelieve that with the simple confidence of a child, and the naturalreliance of a child upon superior years (qualities I am very sorryany children should prematurely change for worldly wisdom), Ihad no serious mistrust of him on the whole, even then.
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