delight是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 快乐， 高兴v. (使) 高兴， (使) 欣喜，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was merit in every drawing in the least finished, perhaps the most; her style was spirited; but had there been much less, or had there been ten times more, the delight and admiration of her two companions would have been the same.
-- 'She will be all delight and gratitude, but she will tell you nothing.
-- I assure you it has been the greatest satisfaction, comfort, and delight to me, to hear what a musical society I am got into.
-- The quiet, heart-felt satisfaction of the old lady, and the rapturous delight of her daughter who proved even too joyous to talk as usual, had been a gratifying, yet almost an affecting, scene.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, but they possibly did with Oak to-night, for the delight of merely seeing her effaced for the time his perception of the great difference between seeing and possessing.
-- One could almost be positive that there was a malicious leer upon the hideous creature's face, and a mischievous delight in its twitchings.
-- Boldwood thought her beautiful, but wondered whether he was right in his thought, for it seemed impossible that this romance in the flesh, if so sweet as he imagined, could have been going on long without creating a commotion of delight among men, and provoking more inquiry than Bathsheba had done, even though that was not a little.
-- It has been said that mere ease after torment is delight for a time; and the countenances of these poor creatures expressed it now.
-- This lyric, when concluded, was received with a silently appreciative gaze at the table, implying that the performance, like a work by those established authors who are independent of notices in the papers, was a well-known delight which required no applause.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to delight in scourging the upper classes of society with the lash of his tongue, to take pleasure in convicting it of inconsistency, in mocking at law and order with some grim jest worthy of Juvenal, as if some grudge against the social system rankled in him, as if there were some mystery carefully hidden away in his life.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The astonishment which I had at first experienced onthis discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture.
-- Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, 61and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection.
-- 'It gives me the greatest delight to see you; but tell me how you left my father, brothers, and Elizabeth.'
-- My country, my beloved country!who but a native can tell the delight I took in again beholding thy streams, 81thy mountains, and, more than all, thy lovely lake!
-- Alas!I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery; had he not murdered my brother?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shook hands all around, her small white hand disappearing into their huge black paws and the four caperedwith delight at the meeting and with pride at displaying before their comrades what a pretty Young Miss they had.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moment they sprang there, the girl looked at me with a quick delight in having been the cause of them.
-- But she neither asked me where I had been, nor why I had kept her waiting; and there was a bright flush upon her face, as though something had happened to delight her.
-- Throughout dinner he took a dry delight in making Sarah Pocket greener and yellower, by often referring in conversation with me to my expectations; but here, again, he showed no consciousness, and even made it appear that he extorted--and even did extort, though I don't know how--those references out of my innocent self.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
-- But as I was out of all fear of being ill-treated under the protection of so great and good an empress, the ornament of nature, the darling of the world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix of the creation, so I hoped my late master's apprehensions would appear to be groundless; for I already found my spirits re-vive, by the influence of her most august presence.'
-- I was indeed treated with much kindness: I was the favourite of a great king and queen, and the delight of the whole court; but it was upon such a foot as ill became the dignity of humankind.
-- For in such a solitude as I desired, I could at least enjoy my own thoughts, and reflect with delight on the virtues of those inimitable Houyhnhnms, without an opportunity of degenerating into the vices and corruptions of my own species.
-- I have perused several books of travels with great delight in my younger days; but having since gone over most parts of the globe, and been able to con-tradict many fabulous accounts from my own observation, it has given me a great disgust against this part of reading, and some indignation to see the credulity of mankind so impudently abused.
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