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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the visit had itsunforeseen consequences; and of a serious sort, too, in their way.
-- I remarked that my mother, though she smiled when Peggottylooked at her, became more serious and thoughtful.
-- He is betterable to judge of it than I am; for I very well know that I am a weak,light, girlish creature, and that he is a firm, grave, serious man.
-- Nothing but the serious assurance of his friend Copperfield to thecontrary, he observed, could deprive him of the impression that hisfriend Copperfield loved and was beloved.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young man had been the first admirer, but she trusted there was no other hold, and that there would be no serious difficulty, on Harriet's side, to oppose any friendly arrangement of her own.
-- 'Oh!no, I am sure you are a great deal too kind to but if you would just advise me what I had best do No, no, I do not mean that As you say, one's mind ought to be quite made up One should not be hesitating It is a very serious thing. It will be safer to say 'No,' perhaps. Do you think I had better say 'No?''
-- 'A very serious sort, I assure you;' still smiling.
-- Accordingly, with a mixture of the serious and the playful, which she hoped would best suit his half and half state, she replied, 'I am very much astonished, Mr. Elton.
-- Mr. Frank Churchill still declined it, looking as serious as he could, and his father gave his hearty support by calling out, 'My good friend, this is quite unnecessary; Frank knows a puddle of water when he sees it, and as to Mrs. Bates's, he may get there from the Crown in a hop, step, and jump.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The practice of divination by Bible and key, the regarding of valentines as things of serious import, the shearing-supper, and the harvest-home, have, too, nearly disappeared in the wake of the old houses; and with them have gone, it is said, much of that love of fuddling to which the village at one time was notoriously prone.
-- On a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution a fine January morning, when there was just enough blue sky visible to make cheerfully-disposed people wish for more, and an occasional gleam of silvery sunshine, Oak put the lamb into a respectable Sunday basket, and stalked across the fields to the house of Mrs. Hurst, the aunt George, the dog walking behind, with a countenance of great concern at the serious turn pastoral affairs seemed to be taking.
-- Oak suddenly ceased from being a mere spectator by discovering the case to be more serious than he had at first imagined.
-- "I was," replied Poorgrass, as if there were some conditions too serious even for modesty to remember itself under, this being one.
-- "He got himself confirmed over again in a more serious way, and took to saying 'Amen' almost as loud as the clerk, and he liked to copy comforting verses from the tombstones.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had he brought it on himself by some eccentricity or absurdity, which is less easily forgiven or forgotten than more serious defects?
-- After much serious consideration the two widows went shopping together--they purchased a hat adorned with ostrich feathers and a cap at the Palais Royal, and the Countess took her friend to the Magasin de la Petite Jeannette, where they chose a dress and a scarf.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the mag- nificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes.
-- I gave several hours to the serious consideration of this difficulty, but I was obliged to relin-quish all attempt to supply it, and wrapping myself up in my cloak, I struck across the wood towards the setting sun.
-- Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett recalled withcontempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
-- For this and other reasons, Gerald's family was not inclined to view the fatal outcome of this quarrel as anythingvery serious, except for the fact that it was charged with serious consequences.
-- The second, and more serious one, was that Gerald was a "new man," despite his nearly ten years'residence, and a foreigner.
-- Here in the northwesternmost corner of the state, at Chickamauga, serious fighting had occurred on Georgia soilfor the first time since the war began.
-- He was a young, saddle-colored negro with a serious face, and when Scarlett saw him she cried: "It'sMose!Ashley's Mose!Whatever is he doing here?"
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