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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- muttered Joe, shaking his head at me in very serious remonstrance.
-- "And last of all, Pip,--and this I want to say very serious to you, old chap,--I see so much in my poor mother, of a woman drudging and slaving and breaking her honest hart and never getting no peace in her mortal days, that I'm dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not doing what's right by a woman, and I'd fur rather of the two go wrong the t'other way, and be a little ill-conwenienced myself.
-- With what absurd emotions (for we think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy) I found myself again going to Miss Havisham's, matters little here.
-- "You take it smoothly now," said I, "but you were very serious last night, when you swore it was Death."
-- "And so I swear it is Death," said he, putting his pipe back in his mouth, "and Death by the rope, in the open street not fur from this, and it's serious that you should fully understand it to be so.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon afterwards he came to a city, where a king ruled who had a daughter who was so serious that no one could make her laugh.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two creatures stood silent while I spoke, seeming to listen with great attention, and when I had ended, they neighed frequently towards each other, as if they were engaged in serious conversation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear Louisa,' said her father, 'I prepared you last night to give me your serious attention in the conversation we are now going to have together.
-- And the honourable member had so tickled the House (which has a delicate sense of humour) by putting the cap on the cow, that it became impatient of any serious reference to the Coroner's Inquest, and brought the railway off with Cheers and Laughter.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A serious study of the soil was necessary to negative or confirm my hypothesis.
-- This was a matter for serious consideration.
-- Now, this is the serious proposition which I have to make to you.
-- The good, and peaceful, and imperturbable Hans would certainly not have arisen from his sleep without some serious and grave motive.
-- Moreover, I began to reason that if my uncle and I could communicate at so great a distance, no serious obstacle could exist between us.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That was her own private affair, and the one point on which, in her own queer, female way, she was serious to the bottom of her soul.
-- They aren't ever serious about anything, except showing off on motor-bikes and dancing at the Palais-de-danse in Sheffield.
-- The serious ones dress up in evening clothes and go off to the Pally to show off before a lot of girls and dance these new Charlestons and what not.
-- They don't give a serious thought to a thing save Doncaster races, and the Derby: for they all of them bet on every race.
-- He talked to her of all his serious schemes, and she lis-tened in a kind of wonder, and let him talk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's a serious injury, I suppose?'
-- Little recked the Collegians who were laughing in their rooms over his late address in the Lodge, what a serious picture they had in their obscure gallery of the Marshalsea that Sunday night.
-- He shook his hand in saying this, as if there had been something serious at the bottom of their conversation; and they separated.
-- And whether the attainment of that object by Mr Pancks's industry might bring to light, in some untimely way, secret reasons which had induced his mother to take Little Dorrit by the hand, was a serious speculation.
-- Both being finished, he shook himself into a sitting attitude; and with the concluding serious apostrophe, 'Hold, then!Blandois, you ingenious one, have all your wits about you!'
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