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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These brilliant constellations began to bestud the sky, and the Southern Cross shone out.
-- The feathered tribes were of most brilliant plumage, and of marvelous variety and deafening noise.
-- On the banks and bushes about these, king-wrens were hopping about and larks singing joyously in concert with the tangaras, the rivals in color of the brilliant humming birds.
-- But brilliant as the idea might be, the difficulty was in the modus operandi.
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：
-- He is much attached to her, no doubt, and would lead a lonely life without her, but it would seem the height of selfishness if he were to stand in the way of her making so brilliant a marriage.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides this, it was clear that the Epanchins' position gained each year, with geometrical accuracy, both as to fi-nancial solidity and social weight; and, therefore, the longer the girls waited, the better was their chance of making a brilliant match.
-- She did not care for a brilliant marriage; she was emi-nently a woman calculated to soothe and sweeten the life of any man; decidedly pretty, if not absolutely handsome.
-- He thought it infra dig, and did not quite like appearing in society afterwards that society in which he had been accustomed to pose up to now as a young man of rather brilliant prospects.
-- 'I tell you, my dear fellow, Aglaya is such an extraor-dinary, such a self-willed, fantastical little creature, you wouldn't believe it!Every high quality, every brilliant trait of heart and mind, are to be found in her, and, with it all, so much caprice and mockery, such wild fancies indeed, a little devil!She has just been laughing at her mother to her very face, and at her sisters, and at Prince S., and every-body and of course she always laughs at me!You know I love the child I love her even when she laughs at me, and I believe the wild little creature has a special fondness for me for that very reason.
-- 'A brilliant idea, and most true!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shot through the sky as some brilliant meteor which the son of scheming Saturn has sent as a sign to mariners or to some great army, and a fiery train of light follows in its wake.
-- She put on the wondrous robe which Minerva had worked for her with consummate art, and had embroidered with manifold devices; she fastened it about her bosom with golden clasps, and she girded herself with a girdle that had a hundred tassels: then she fastened her earrings, three brilliant pendants that glistened most beautifully, through the pierced lobes of her ears, and threw a lovely new veil over her head.
-- Thus did they fight as it were a flaming fire; it seemed asthough it had gone hard even with the sun and moon, for they were hidden over all that part where the bravest heroes were fighting about the dead son of Menoetius, whereas the other Danaans and Achaeans fought at their ease in full daylight with brilliant sunshine all round them, and there was not a cloud to be seen neither on plain nor mountain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He worked with the lamp close to him, and the green shade threw a brilliant light upon his hands, and upon the frame and wheels, and left the rest of the room shadowy.
-- Mrs. Hall's eyes, directed straight before her, saw without seeing the brilliant oblong of the inn door, the road white and vivid, and Huxter's shop-front blistering in the June sun.
-- Silver!A diamond box would neither absorb much of the light nor reflect much from the general surface, but just here and there where the surfaces were favourable the light would be reflected and refracted, so that you would get a brilliant appearance of flashing reflections and translucencies a sort of skeleton of light.
-- "And then I had a brilliant idea.
-- And near that was a toy department, and I had a brilliant idea.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His little eyes were a brilliant black under his heavy brows.
-- But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confu-sion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the chequered wall.
-- An ugly-looking man, a hunch-backed human savage to all appearance, squatting in the aperture of one of the dens, would stretch his arms and yawn, showing with startling suddenness scissor-edged in-cisors and sabre-like canines, keen and brilliant as knives.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They never meant to do any more the Bandar-log nev-er mean anything at all; but one of them invented what seemed to him a brilliant idea, and he told all the others that Mowgli would be a useful person to keep in the tribe, because he could weave sticks together for protection from the wind; so, if they caught him, they could make him teach them.
-- Little Toomai slept for some time, and when he waked it was brilliant moonlight, and Kala Nag was still standing up with his ears cocked.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her coat was not white or black or brown as that of any other goat, but azure, a deep brilliant color that reminded one of the hair of the lovely maiden.
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