poor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 贫困的； 可怜的； 贫乏的； 贫瘠的； 低劣的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You're poor enough.'
-- 'At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desir-able that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.
-- 'The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?'
-- 10 Sons and Lovers 'Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Chris-tian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,' returned the gentleman, 'a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink.
-- 'A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' respecting the small property of my poor father, whom I never saw so long dead ' Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and cast a troubled look to-wards the hospital procession of negro cupids.
-- Miss, if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the be-lief that her father was dead No, don't kneel!In Heaven's name why should you kneel to me!'
-- You are well on your way to the poor wronged gentleman, and, with a fair sea voyage, and a fair land journey, you will be soon at his dear side.'
-- A wild-looking woman, whom even in his agitation, Mr. Lorry observed to be all of a red colour, and to have red hair, and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight-fitting fashion, and to have on her head a most wonderful bon-net like a Grenadier wooden measure, and good measure too, or a great Stilton cheese, came running into the room in advance of the inn servants, and soon settled the ques-tion of his detachment from the poor young lady, by laying a brawny hand upon his chest, and sending him flying back against the nearest wall.
-- 'Ah!So much the worse!A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor old minister looked and looked, he could not discover anything on the looms, for a very good reason, viz: there was nothing there.
-- Andersen's Fairy Tales THE SWINEHERD here was once a poor Prince, who had a kingdom.
-- They poured out the liquor, and made the most friendly gesticulations; while a cold perspiration trickled down the back of the poor Councillor.
-- Alas, poor me!
-- 'I sat one evening sunk in dreams of bliss, A maid of seven years old gave me a kiss, I at that time was rich in poesy And tales of old, though poor as poor could be; But all she asked for was this poesy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, yes, I'm in a poor way, a bad way," said Stepan Arkadyevitch with a heavy sigh.
-- "You can't conceive how queer it all seems to a country person like me, as queer as that gentleman's nails I saw at your place..." "Yes, I saw how much interested you were in poor Grinevitch's nails," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, laughing.
-- "Yes, but joking apart," resumed Stepan Arkadyevitch, "you must understand that the woman is a sweet, gentle loving creature, poor and lonely, and has sacrificed everything.
-- The princess smiled that what was taking place just now in her soul seemed to the poor child so immense and so important.
-- It makes me sick, sick to see it, and you've gone on till you've turned the poor wench's head.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout jumped off the box and followed his master, who, after paying the cabman, was about to enter the station, when a poor beggar-woman, with a child in her arms, her naked feet smeared with mud, her head covered with a wretched bonnet, from which hung a tattered feather, and her shoulders shrouded in a ragged shawl, approached, and mournfully asked for alms.
-- He continued to pump poor Passepartout, and learned that he really knew little or nothing of his master, who lived a solitary existence in London, was said to be rich, though no one knew whence came his riches, and was mysterious and impenetrable in his affairs and habits.
-- Poor Passepartout, quite crestfallen, followed his master without a word.
-- Phileas Fogg paid the Indian with some banknotes which he extracted from the famous carpet-bag, a proceeding that seemed to deprive poor Passepartout of his vitals.
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