brilliant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 光辉的, 英明的，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 mingled reality and mystery ofthe whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, themusic, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glitteringand brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up suchillimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainystreet, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from theclouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to abawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, pattern-clinking, muddy, miserable world.
-- If any one had told me, then, that all this was a brilliant game,played for the excitement of the moment, for the employment ofhigh spirits, in the thoughtless love of superiority, in a merewasteful careless course of winning what was worthless to him,and next minute thrown away: I say, if any one had told me such alie that night, I wonder in what manner of receiving it myindignation would have found a vent!
-- In the keendistress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of allthat was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was goodin him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made hima man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done inthe height of my devotion to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their first pause was at the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road; and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there; but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added; it had been built many years ago for a ball-room, and while the neighbourhood had been in a particularly populous, dancing state, had been occasionally used as such; but such brilliant days had long passed away, and now the highest purpose for which it was ever want-ed was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place.
-- This is brilliant indeed! This is admirable! Excellent-ly contrived, upon my word.
-- Never had the exquisite sight, smell, sensation of nature, tranquil, warm, and brilliant after a storm, been more attractive to her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man to whom she was hooked was brilliant in brass and scarlet.
-- Hence, whilst he sometimes reached the brilliant in speech because that was spontaneous, he fell below the commonplace in action, from inability to guide incipient effort.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene had been dazzled at first by the brilliant assembly, and had scarcely exchanged a few words with the Vicomtesse; he had been content to single out a goddess among this throng of Parisian divinities, one of those women who are sure to attract a young man's fancy.
-- de Restaud's face swam again and again before his eyes like a vision of a brilliant future; and at last he lay down and slept with clenched fists.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of cau-sation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me a light so brilliant and wondrous, 51yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immen-sity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their in-quiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- True, Georgia had lostone of her bravest and most brilliant sons when General T. R. R. Cobb had been killed at Fredericksburg.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It don't signify to you with your brilliant lookout, but as to myself, my guiding-star always is, 'Get hold of portable property'."
-- It was too early yet to go to Miss Havisham's, so I loitered into the country on Miss Havisham's side of town,--which was not Joe's side; I could go there to-morrow,--thinking about my patroness, and painting brilliant pictures of her plans for me.
-- "You must know," said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, "that I have no heart,--if that has anything to do with my memory."
-- I am afraid it is scarcely necessary for my father's son to remark that my father's establishment is not particularly brilliant in its housekeeping."
-- There was nothing very surprising in that; but again, I was rather surprised, when he said, as if he were animated by a brilliant idea,--"Let's go in!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess on one side, and the true one on the other; but nobody knew her 77again, for her beauty was quite dazzling to their eyes; and she did not seem at all like the little goose-girl, now that she had her brilliant dress on.
-- The evening sun shone upon the brilliant stones; they glittered and sparkled with all colours so beautifully that the children stood still and stared at them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there was reserved for Professor Hardwigg a brilliant and sudden surprise which was to compensate him for all his sufferings.
-- As I did so I made out a brilliant little dot, at the extremity of this long, gigantic telescope.
-- It lined the whole of the inside with its thick and brilliant coating.
-- Perhaps even the star of day was not quite ready for its brilliant work--to illumine a universe.
-- These were the brilliant ideas which now invaded my brain.
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