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：
-- But the day after, all the brilliant words seemed like dead leaves, crumpling up and turning to powder, meaning really nothing, blown away on any gust of wind.
-- He began to experiment, and got a clever young fellow, who had proved brilliant in chemistry, to help him.
-- And with brilliant eyes they watched Connie, as she crouched before them, and they gave short sharp clucks of anger and alarm, but chiefly of female anger at being ap-proached.
-- She saw a very brilliant little moon shining above the afterglow over the oaks.
-- There was no sound save the noise, the faint shuffling noise from Stacks Gate colliery, that never ceased working: and there were hardly any lights, save the brilliant electric rows at the works.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Howbeit, the father did not fail in any outward show of politeness, but, on the contrary, honoured him with much attention; perhaps cherishing the hope that, although not a man of a sufficiently brilliant and spontaneous turn of mind to repeat his former testimonial unsolicited, it might still be within the compass of his nature to bear the part of a responsive gentleman, in any correspondence that way tending.
-- Upon which, that young lady, feeling much harassed in her mind, and having for the time worn out the wish with which she generally relieved it, conceived and executed the brilliant idea of wishing Old Nandy dead, rather than that he should come bothering there like a disgusting, tiresome, wicked wretch, and making mischief between two sisters.
-- A few were low at the thought of being left behind, and being left poor; but even these did not grudge the family their brilliant reverse.
-- This is why it was, that, even as he sat before her on his sofa, in the brilliant light of a bright Italian day, the wonderful city without and the splendours of an old palace within, she saw him at the moment in the long-familiar gloom of his Marshalsea lodging, and wished to take her seat beside him, and comfort him, and be again full of confidence with him, and of usefulness to him.
-- But as her father when they had been to a brilliant reception at Mrs Merdle's, harped at their own family breakfast-table on his wish to know Mr Merdle, with the contingent view of benefiting by the advice of that wonderful man in the disposal of his fortune, she began to think it had a real meaning, and to entertain a curiosity on her own part to see the shining light of the time.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had a charming time, for THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE DIAMOND LAKE was as brilliant and wonderful as heart could wish.
-- Feeling very much ruffled, she went and stood at a qui-et window to cool her cheeks, for the tight dress gave her an uncomfortably brilliant color.
-- A. SNODGRASS THE MASKED MARRIAGE (A Tale Of Venice) Gondola after gondola swept up to the marble steps, and left its lovely load to swell the brilliant throng that filled the stately halls of Count Adelon.
-- Play fair, Teddy, or I'll never be-lieve you again,' she said, trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up at a word of encouragement.
-- So brilliant and gay without, for all the world seemed abroad to welcome the first snow.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say, they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly burn their lengths in spermaceti candles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One beautiful night, when they had taken a longer walk than was customary with them: for the day had been unusually warm, and there was a brilliant moon, and a light wind had sprung up, which was unusually refreshing.
-- The untasted meal was removed, with looks which showed that their thoughts were elsewhere, they watched the sun as he sank lower and lower, and, at length, cast over sky and earth those brilliant hues which herald his departure.
-- 'The prospect before you,' answered Rose, firmly, 'is a brilliant one.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne continued to mend every day, and the brilliant cheerfulness of Mrs. Dashwood's looks and spirits proved her to be, as she repeatedly declared herself, one of the happiest women in the world.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was wholly unlike the great brilliant mansions which waved her coldly away, permitting her only awe and distant wonder.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly, he found himself in a large square, full of people standing in front of a little wooden building painted in brilliant colors.
-- What was his disgust, however, when on tasting the food, he found the bread to be made of chalk, the chicken of cardboard, and the brilliant fruit of colored alabaster!
-- A great sash of gold and silver was fastened around his waist and his tail was decorated with ribbons of many brilliant colors.
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