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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We were talking about this very family, and 'twas only last Purification Day in this very world, when the use-money is gied away to the second-best poor folk, you know, shepherd, and I can mind the day because they all had to traypse up to the vestry yes, this very man's family."
-- "'Tis a' awkward gift for a man, poor soul," said the maltster.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor child loved the father who refused to acknowledge her.
-- And, as in a school, as in the world itself, there was among the eighteen men and women who met round the dinner table a poor creature, despised by all the others, condemned to be the butt of all their jokes.
-- The poor old man's mental and physical condition afforded some grounds for the absurd rubbish talked about him.
-- With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances, she was wont to reason thus: "If Father Goriot had daughters of his own as rich as those ladies who came here seemed to be, he would not be lodging in my house, on the third floor, at forty-five francs a month; and he would not go about dressed like a poor man."
-- So by the end of the month of November 1819, at the time when the curtain rises on this drama, every one in the house had come to have a very decided opinion as to the poor old man.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.
-- How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor brother!I am too ardent in execution and too impatient of difficulties.
-- He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the inter-ment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.
-- During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape.
-- Poor Clerval!What must have been his feelings?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves thanany one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.
-- But rich planters were few in the youngcounty of Clayton, and, in order to muster a full-strength troop, it had been necessary to raise more recruits among thesons of small farmers, hunters in the backwoods, swamp trappers, Crackers and, in a very few cases, even poor whites,if they were above the average of their class.
-- As for the poor whites, they consideredthemselves well off if they owned one mule.
-- Being poor white, they were not even accorded the" grudging respect thatAngus Macintosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.
-- "Yes, and dead, poor thing," said Ellen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!"
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
-- "We don't know what you have done, but we wouldn't have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creatur.--Would us, Pip?"
-- "Certainly, poor Joe!"
-- She were in poor elth, and quite broke.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will reach a vil-lage in the evening; and when you get there, you will see two inns opposite to each other, one of which is very pleas-ant and beautiful to look at: go not in there, but rest for the night in the other, though it may appear to you to be very poor and mean.'
-- So he dressed himself as a poor man, and came secretly to the king's court, and was scarcely within the doors when the horse began to eat, and the bird to sing, and princess left off weeping.
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