philosophical是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 哲学上的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With him there was a well-known professor of philosophy, who had come from Harkov expressly to clear up a difference that had arisen between them on a very important philosophical question.
-- "No; since we are talking, explain it to me from the philosophical point of view," said Levin.
-- "I imagine," he said, "that no sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self- interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical principle," he said, repeating the word "philosophical" with determination, as though wishing to show that he had as much right as any one else to talk of philosophy.
-- And Sergey Ivanovitch carried the subject into the regions of philosophical history where Konstantin Levin could not follow him, and showed him all the incorrectness of his view.
-- Darya Alexandrovna in her intimate, philosophical talks with her sister, her mother, and her friends very often astonished them by the freedom of her views in regard to religion.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There is but one trouble of a philosophical bacteriologist.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In rather a too philosophical and connected a strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lull had a sedative and philosophical influence on Joe, who followed me out into the road to say, as a parting observation that might do me good, "On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip:--such is Life!"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I chiefly wanted to know, to what cause, in art or in nature, it owed its several motions, whereof I will now give a philosophical account to the read-er.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being left to saunter in the hall a minute or two while Mr. Gradgrind went up-stairs for the address, he opened the door of the children's study and looked into that serene floor-clothed apartment, which, notwithstanding its book-cases and its cabinets and its variety of learned and philosophical appliances, had much of the genial aspect of a room devoted to hair-cutting.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle was careful to note every hour the indications of the compass, of the manometer, and of the thermometer, all which he afterwards published in his elaborate philosophical and scientific account of our remarkable voyage.
-- I asked; "all this time I have quite forgotten to ask you a question, which, doubtless, your philosophical instruments have long since answered."
-- Of all our former collection of nautical and philosophical instruments, there remained only the chronometer and the compass.
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：
-- Hilda, however, sud-denly married a man ten years older than herself, an elder member of the same Cambridge group, a man with a fair amount of money, and a comfortable family job in the gov-ernment: he also wrote philosophical essays.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Philosophical philanthropy teaches 'The rest of the little knot about the stove murmured an objection to the introduction of that threatening expression.
-- Even the two players at dominoes glanced up from their game, as if to protest against philosophical philanthropy being brought by name into the Break of Day.
-- I am a woman, I. I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy.
-- 'My faith!If your philosophical philanthropy,' said the landlady, putting down her work, and rising to take the stranger's soup from her husband, who appeared with it at a side door, 'puts anybody at the mercy of such people by holding terms with them at all, in words or deeds, or both, take it away from the Break of Day, for it isn't worth a sou.'
-- Mr Plornish amiably growled, in his philosophical but not lucid manner, that there was ups you see, and there was downs.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By-and-by, when you've got a name, you can afford to digress, and have philosophical and metaphysical people in your novels,' said Amy, who took a strictly practical view of the subject.
-- Now I demand the satisfaction of a gentleman,' and with that the tall uncle pro-ceeded to toss and tousle the small nephew in a way that damaged his philosophical dignity as much as it delighted his boyish soul.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this was it: The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered--the poor people liked it!It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
-- Oliver looked very worn and shadowy from sickness, and made an ineffectual attempt to stand up, out of respect to his benefactor, which terminated in his sinking back into the chair again; and the fact is, if the truth must be told, that Mr. Brownlow's heart, being large enough for any six ordinary old gentlemen of humane disposition, forced a supply of tears into his eyes, by some hydraulic process which we are not sufficiently philosophical to be in a condition to explain.
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