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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Be careful what you say, old boy, for this is a serious matter.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man's serious place in it; when it sees the possibility of infinite perfection of which the world is capable, and devotes itself to that endeavor, not only with the hope, but with a full conviction of reaching that perfection which it imagines possible.
-- Katiousha looked at her mistress, then suddenly turned her eyes on the jury and rested them on Nekhludoff, her face becoming serious and even stern.
-- But, seeing the calm, serious faces of the judges and the jury, who received the verdict as something quite natural, she revolted and cried out that she was innocent.
-- When, however, she heard the kind, compassionate exclamation of pity from the old woman, and, especially, when her eyes met the serious eyes of the boy who looked now at her, now at the rolls, she could restrain herself no longer.
-- "Well, and then we continue: 'Under these circumstances the court erred in imposing on Maslova punishment, and the application to her of section 3, chapter 771 of the Code was a serious violation of the basic principles of the criminal law.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was never more serious in my life."
-- The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with eggshell china.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You know,' he added very gravely, 'it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle to get one's head cut off.'
-- This is a serious question, my dear, and you should not go on licking your paw like that as if Dinah hadn't washed you this morning!You see, Kitty, it must have been either me or the Red King.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this return to the upper strata was not so sudden as to cause relief from the pressure too rapidly, which might have produced serious disorder in our organisation, and brought on internal lesions, so fatal to divers.
-- "That is true, M. Aronnax," replied the Captain; "but I think you have serious reasons for wishing to see me?"
-- "Well," said Conseil, with the most serious air in the world, "I remember perfectly to have seen a large vessel drawn under the waves by an octopus's arm."
-- But, before I could reply, he showed me an open manuscript on his table, and said, in a more serious tone, "Here, M. Aronnax, is a manuscript written in several languages.
-- In spite of the serious cannonade, Captain Nemo did not appear on the platform; but, if one of the conical projectiles had struck the shell of the Nautilus, it would have been fatal.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in his pale, elegant, serious face there showed the same nostalgia that Gudrun felt.
-- But now that it was a serious matter, she seemed uncertain and clumsy in her stroke, it was difficult to paddle swiftly.
-- She who could never suffer, because she never formed vital connections, she who could lose the dearest things of her life and be just the same the next day, the whole memory dropped out, as if deliberately, she whose will was so strangely and easily free, anarchistic, almost nihilistic, who like a soulless bird flits on its own will, without attachment or responsibility beyond the moment, who in her every motion snapped the threads of serious relationship with blithe, free hands, really nihilistic, because never troubled, she must be the object of her father's final passionate solicitude.
-- She would accept nothing but the world of amusement, and the serious people of her life were the animals she had for pets.
-- So that Winifred, with a child's subtle instinct for avoiding the painful things, behaved as if nothing serious was the matter.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This caused me to feel, not uncomfortable, but rather fearful (as I am still) of serious effects from the incidents of to day and yesterday.
-- With that he dashed headforemost out of the room, amid the merriment of the master and mistress, and to the serious disturbance of Catherine; who could not comprehend how her remarks should have produced such an exhibition of bad temper.
-- She dropped down on her knees by a chair, and set to weeping in serious earnest.
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