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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- HANS IN LUCK ome men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do Scomes right all that falls to them is so much gain all their geese are swans all their cards are trumps toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.
-- At last he said, 'Master, my time is up; I must go home and see my poor mother once more: so pray pay me my wages and let me go.'
-- Poor Hans was sadly frightened.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, espe-cially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on 28 Gulliver's Travelsthe ground, and away he ran.
-- These buckets were about the size of large thim-bles, and the poor people supplied me with them as fast as they could: but the flame was so violent that they did little good.
-- The poor girl laid me on her bosom, and fell a weeping with shame and grief.
-- Her majesty agreed to my petition, and easily got the farmer's consent, who was glad enough to have his daugh-ter preferred at court, and the poor girl herself was not able to hide her joy.
-- I made bold to tell her majesty, 'that I owed no other obligation to my late master, than his not dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature, found by chance in his fields: which ob-ligation was amply recompensed, by the gain he had made in showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he had now sold me for.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, my poor health!'
-- 'Poor Sissy!He had better have apprenticed her,' said Childers, giving his hair another shake, as he looked up from the empty box.
-- They all assumed to be mighty rakish and knowing, they were not very tidy in their private dresses, they were not at all orderly in their domestic arrangements, and the combined literature of the whole company would have produced but a poor letter on any subject.
-- 'Ith it your intenthion to do anything for the poor girl, Thquire?'
-- You are gone to try to do me some good, I know!You are gone away for my sake, I am sure!And how miserable and helpless you will be without me, poor, poor father, until you come back!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now as I had a strong conviction that the Runic alphabet and dialect were simply an invention to mystify poor human nature, I was delighted to find that my uncle knew as much about the matter as I did--which was nothing.
-- Then comes the hunter or trader, taking away the nest, the poor bereaved female begins her task over again, and this continues as long as any eider down is to be found.
-- We took our way through poor and sparse meadows, which made a desperate effort every year to show a little green.
-- In this country there are no roads, paths are nearly unknown, and vegetation, poor as it was, slowly as it reached perfection, soon obliterated all traces of the few travelers who passed from place to place.
-- These poor lepers did not tend to enliven our journey, the scene of which was inexpressibly sad and lonely.
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：
-- But, knowing what torture poor Clif-ford would feel at the slightest sign of flirting on her part, she gave them no encouragement at all.
-- Poor Michaelis had been much kicked, so that he had a slightly tail-between-the-legs look even now.
-- Was the way the poor outsider had shoved and bounced himself forward in person, and by the back doors, any worse than Clifford's way of advertising himself into prominence?
-- 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.
-- Poor Connie!As the years drew on it was the fear of nothingness In her life that affected her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Poor birds!'
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