infinitely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 无限地， 无边地，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lamented 'the fatal mistake the world had been so long in, of using silkworms, while we had such plenty of domestic insects who infinitely excelled the former, because they understood how to weave, as well as spin.'
-- I never presumed to speak, except in answer to a question; and then I did it with inward regret, because it was a loss of so much time for improving myself; but I was infinitely delighted with the station of an humble auditor in such conversations, where nothing passed but what was useful, expressed in the fewest and most significant words; where, as I have already said, the greatest decency was ob-served, without the least degree of ceremony; where no person spoke without being pleased himself, and pleasing his companions; where there was no interruption, tedious-ness, heat, or difference of sentiments.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!
-- But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women.
-- And an infinitely dreary person he appeared to me to be.
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：
-- The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
-- 'Wrong!Good God, no!You're only too infinitely good to me...I can hardly bear it.'
-- She was infinitely amused, and proud too, that even their talking they could not do, without her silent presence.
-- Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the con-cocted sugaries; now they ARE poison; when I begin saying what a fine fellow Clifford is, etc., etc., then poor Clifford is to be pitied.
-- At first he had resented the infinitely soft touch ofher lingers on his face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You knew my father infinitely better than I ever knew him; and his reserve with me yielded to you.
-- 'My good sir,' he would rejoin, 'he is infinitely obliged to you.'
-- Arthur replied in the usual way that he felt infinitely obliged to him.
-- There was a whisper of the pervading Bohemian character in the nomadic nature of the service and its curious races of plates and dishes; but the noble Refrigerator, infinitely better than plate or porcelain, made it superb.
-- I am infinitely obliged to you for what you have told me.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boys are trying enough to human patience, goodness knows, but girls are infinitely more so, especially to nervous gentlemen with tyrannical tempers and no more talent for teaching than Dr. Blimber.
-- I am glad of this, for though I should be very proud of a graceful statue made by her, I shall be infinitely prouder of a lovable daughter with a talent for making life beautiful to herself and others.'
-- It dawned upon her gradually that the world was being picked to pieces, and put together on new and, according to the talkers, on infinitely better principles than before, that religion was in a fair way to be reasoned into nothingness, and intellect was to be the only God.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, alas!the practices of whalemen soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens.
-- True, from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance, somewhat resembling the thinnest shreds of isinglass, only it is almost as flexible and soft as satin; that is, previous to being dried, when it not only contracts and thickens, but becomes rather hard and brittle.
-- That same infinitely thin, isinglass substance, which, I admit, invests the entire body of the whale, is not so much to be regarded as the skin of the creature, as the skin of the skin, so to speak; for it were simply ridiculous to say, that the proper skin of the tremendous whale is thinner and more tender than the skin of a new-born child.
-- Best, therefore, withhold any amazement at the strangely gallied whales before us, for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her improve-ment on the harp; and pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful little design for a table, and I think it infinitely superior to Miss Grantley's.'
-- 'I should like balls infinitely better,' she replied, 'if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is some-thing insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting.
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