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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XVII A SERIOUS NECESSITYTHE Argentine Pampas extend from the thirty-fourth to the fortieth degree of southern latitude.
-- Tokens of sterility were not the least on the decrease, and the want of water might involve serious calamities.
-- It was a serious question which would need to be well talked over.
-- This was a serious damage, so serious as to require more skilful workmen than could be found in Adelaide.
-- "To any serious extent?"
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：
-- I came to you, Mr. Holmes, because I recognized that I am myself an unpractical man and because I am suddenly confronted with a most serious and extraordinary problem.
-- His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived, however chimerical the cause of it might be, was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.
-- 'Why, you look very serious over it.'
-- 'My good fellow, this is a very serious business, and you may find yourself in a pretty bad position if you try to hide anything from me.
-- A serious epidemic broke out in the school and three of the boys died.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Did he seem to be a serious sort of a man, or just a com-mon rowdy fellow?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of this work I finished my fourth year in this place, and kept my anniversary with the same devotion, and with as much comfort as ever before; for, by a constant study and serious application to the Word of God, and by the assistance of His grace, I gained a different knowledge from what I had before.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it.
-- No sooner did she perceive any symptom of love in his behaviour to Elinor, than she considered their serious attachment as certain, and looked forward to their marriage as rapidly approaching.
-- CHAPTER 11Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
-- One moment she feared that no serious design had ever been formed on his side; and the next that some unfortunate quarrel had taken place between him and her sister; the distress in which Marianne had quitted the room was such as a serious quarrel could most reasonably account for, though when she considered what Marianne's love for him was, a quarrel seemed almost impossible.
-- I am guilty, I confess, of having often wished you to treat our acquaintance in general with greater attention; but when have I advised you to adopt their sentiments or to conform to their judgment in serious matters?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were the serious reflections of a mind which invariably adjusted itself, without much complaining, to such surroundings as its industry could make for it.
-- To one not inclined to drink, and gifted with a more serious turn of mind, such a bubbling, chattering, glittering chamber must ever seem an anomaly, a strange commentary on nature and life.
-- He had been looking for some time for a break in the conversation when he could give it a serious turn.
-- It had no serious ring to it.
-- It had not the slightest connection with anything intended on his part, and was spoken at random before he had given it a moment's serious thought.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Woe betide the lazy fellow!Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood.
-- asked Pinocchio with a serious face.
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