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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The poor wretch!"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had worn the threadbare top-coat of a poor professor, yet Martin remembered him as wrapped in a black velvet cape with a silver star arrogant on his breast.
-- Why, you poor skinny little agnostic, here you have a chance to see the Almighty's handiwork, and all you grab out of it is a feeling that you're real smart.
-- You can lick anybody in the class, and when I think of how you're going to bully the poor heathen when you get to be a missionary, and make the kids put on breeches, and marry off all the happy lovers to the wrong people, I could bawl!"
-- Sure, keep right on--fine brave virile bunch!A poor weakling preacher like me wouldn't dare do anything so brave as smoke a pipe!"
-- He said quietly, "This poor animal will now soon be dead as Moses."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His parents were very hard- working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms.
-- Do you suppose that a respectable poor girl can earn much by honest work?
-- Hm 芒聙娄 yes 芒聙娄 very poor people and all with cleft palates 芒聙娄 yes.
-- 'He's drunk it!he's drunk it all,' the poor woman screamed in despair 'and his clothes are gone!And they are hungry, hungry!
-- They even began to come into the room; at last a sinister shrill outcry was heard: this came from Amalia Lippevechsel herself push-ing her way amongst them and trying to restore order after her own fashion and for the hundredth time to frighten the poor woman by ordering her with coarse abuse to clear out of the room next day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- DAVID COPPERFIELDCharles Dickens 2Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) - The most popular and perhapsgreatest English novelist and short-story writer, he drew on hisexperiences as a poor child to produce extremely realistic stories.
-- Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always calledher, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidablepersonage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had beenmarried to a husband younger than herself, who was veryhandsome, except in the sense of the homely adage, 'handsome is,that handsome does'- for he was strongly suspected of havingbeaten Miss Betsey, and even of having once, on a disputedquestion of supplies, made some hasty but determinedarrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs' window.
-- My father had often hinted that she seldom conductedherself like any ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing thebell, she came and looked in at that identical window, pressing theend of her nose against the glass to that extent that my poor dearmother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment.
-- My mother was, no doubt, unusually youthful inappearance even for her years; she hung her head, as if it were herfault, poor thing, and said, sobbing, that indeed she was afraid shewas but a childish widow, and would be but a childish mother ifshe lived.
-- Copperfield,' returned mymother, 'is dead, and if you dare to speak unkindly of him to me-'My poor dear mother, I suppose, had some momentary intention ofcommitting an assault and battery upon my aunt, who could easilyhave settled her with one hand, even if my mother had been in farbetter training for such an encounter than she was that evening.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The carriage!But James will not like to put the horses to for such a little way; and where are the poor horses to be while we are paying our visit?'
-- It was very lucky, for I would not have had poor James think himself slighted upon any account; and I am sure she will make a very good ser-vant: she is a civil, pretty-spoken girl; I have a great opinion of her.
-- I am sure she will be an excellent servant; and it will be a great comfort to poor Miss Taylor to have somebody about her that she is used to see.
-- 'Poor Mr. and Miss Woodhouse, if you please; but I can-not possibly say 'poor Miss Taylor.'
-- 'But, Mr. Knightley, she is really very sorry to lose poor Miss Taylor, and I am sure she will miss her more than she thinks for.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A voice came from behind some laurel-bushes into which the cat had run:"Poor dear!Did a nasty brute of a dog want to kill it; did he, poor dear!"
-- In substance it had originally been hair, but long contact with sheep seemed to be turning it by degrees into wool of a poor quality and staple.
-- As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
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