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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Epanchin began to show signs of discon-tent, and that was a serious matter.
-- 'Just now, I confess,' began the prince, with more ani-mation, 'when you asked me for a subject for a picture, I confess I had serious thoughts of giving you one.
-- Her face was serious and frowning; she did not even smile as she nodded goodbye to him at the door.
-- She looked ill and rather sad; but her face was a pleas-ant one for all that; and from the first word that fell from her lips, any stranger would at once conclude that she was of a serious and particularly sincere nature.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Attempts were At Once made to secure him, but casting off his garments, it says, he succeeded in escaping, but not until after a desperate struggle, in which he had inflicted serious injuries, it says, on our worthy and able constable, Mr. J.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The red-haired man gave a yawp of exultation and stood staggering, and as it seemed to me in serious danger of either going back-wards down the companion hatchway or forwards upon his victim.
-- I told him that some serious thing must have happened to Moreau by this time, or he would have returned before this, and that it behoved us to ascer- tain what that catastrophe was.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a serious matter for him.
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：
-- When they rejoined the expecting and anxious females, he briefly acquainted them with the conditions of their new guide, and with the ne-cessity that existed for their hushing every apprehension in instant and serious exertions.
-- The low and serious sounds of the sacred music, so well known to the eastern provinces, caught his ear, and instantly drew him to an apartment in an adjacent building, which had already been deserted by its customary ten-ants.
-- The youth in front threw serious but furtive glances at the mangled victims, as he stepped lightly across the plain, afraid to exhibit his feelings, and yet too inexperienced to quell entirely their sudden and powerful influence.
-- After essaying its virtues repeatedly, in contrast with his own voice, and, satisfying himself that none of its melody was lost, he made a very serious demon-stration toward achieving a few stanzas of one of the longest effusions in the little volume so often mentioned.
-- Like their neighbors, they had fol- lowed Montcalm into the territories of the English crown, and were making heavy and serious inroads on the hunt- ing-grounds of the Mohawks; though they had seen fit, with the mysterious reserve so common among the natives, to withhold their assistance at the moment when it was most required.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The matter was immensely serious for all the parties concerned, but there was in the manner of his answer such a cheerful effrontery that I had to bite my lips in order not to laugh.
-- The absurdity that clung to everything connected with Dirk Stroeve gave it a curious note, like an unresolved discord, but made it somehow more modern, more human; like a rough joke thrown into a serious scene, it heightened the poignancy which all beauty has.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had one-of those finely- developed heads which appear made to be struck on a medal, piercing eyes, a serious mouth, the physiognomy of a clever man of the military school.
-- This accident, which appeared so very serious to Pencroft, produced different effects on the companions of the honest sailor.
-- The question of boots and clothes assuredly a serious question, that of light during the winter months, utilizing the fertile parts of the island, transforming the wild flora into cultivated flora, it all appeared easy to him; Cyrus Harding helping, everything would be done in time.
-- It was on themselves, on themselves alone, that the settlers must depend, for the distance of Lincoln Island from all other land was such, that to hazard themselves in a boat, of a necessarily inferior construction, would be a serious and perilous thing.
-- To think that all that might be pillaged and that the settlers would have all their work to do over again, fresh weapons and tools to make, was a serious matter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having performed the serious pantomime that was necessary for the due conveyance of this idea, he cast himself upon his friend's track, and vanished.
-- By this time, Mr Swiveller had finished his entry, and he now replaced his pencil in its little sheath and closed the book, in a perfectly grave and serious frame of mind.
-- Upon my word, you know, it's quite serious and in earnest, that's clear.'
-- 'No doubt about it,' returned Kit, with a serious look; 'upon my word, mother, I don't think it was right to trust it to itself.
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