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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But where are the poor fellows?
-- The poor men have landed somewhere; but where?
-- "If those poor creatures ever see their native land again, it is you they will have to thank for it."
-- What she has done for Franklin and so many others, she will do to-day for these poor shipwrecked fellows of the BRITANNIA."
-- He was known to be brave to excess, and full of daring and chivalry—a Fer-gus of the nineteenth century; but his goodness excelled every other quality, and he was more charitable than St. Martin himself, for he would have given the whole of his cloak to any of the poor Highlanders.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.
-- Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terri-ble oaths which came up to her from below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them.
-- The only other kinsman whom we have been able to trace was Rodger Baskerville, the youngest of three brothers of whom poor Sir Charles was the elder.
-- That was my poor uncle's idea.
-- Poor Sir Charles's head was of a very rare type, half Gaelic, half Iver-nian in its characteristics.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to my forefa-thers, they have always been a poor lot; my own father was a sublieutenant in the army.
-- 'Well, at all events it is a good thing that there's no pain when the poor fellow's head flies off,' he remarked.
-- I have already stated that the general, though he was a man of lowly origin, and of poor education, was, for all that, an experienced and talented husband and father.
-- Close to an estate of Totski's, in one of the central provinces of Russia, there lived, at that time, a poor gentleman whose estate was of the wretchedest description.
-- Her principal acquaintances were poor wom-en of various grades, a couple of actresses, and the family of a poor schoolteacher.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The serpent ate the poor cheeping things, while the old bird flew about la-menting her little ones; but the serpent threw his coils about her and caught her by the wing as she was screaming.
-- Aeneas, bold though he was, drew back on seeing the two heroes side by side in front of him, so they drew the bod-ies of Crethon and Orsilochus to the ranks of the Achaeans and committed the two poor fellows into the hands of their comrades.
-- So there the poor fellow lay, sleeping a sleep as it were of bronze, killed in the defence of his fellow-citi-zens, far from his wedded wife, of whom he had had no joy though he had given much for her: he had given a hundred-head of cattle down, and had promised later on to give a thousand sheep and goats mixed, from the countless flocks of which he was possessed.
-- He fell heavily to the ground and Ulysses vaunted over him saying, 'O Socus, son of Hip-pasus tamer of horses, death has been too quick for you and you have not escaped him: poor wretch, not even in death shall your father and mother close your eyes, but the raven-ing vultures shall enshroud you with the flapping of their dark wings and devour you.
-- Poor wretch, Achilles with all his bravery availed you nothing; and yet I ween when you left him he charged you straitly saying, 'Come not back to the ships, knight Patroclus, till you have rent the bloodstained shirt of murderous Hector about his body.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The poor soul's had an accident or an op'ration or somethin'," said Mrs. Hall.
-- 'Twas in that very chair my poor dear mother used to sit when I was a little girl.
-- "The fact is," said the Voice, "I shall have to make use of you... You're a poor tool, but I must."
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You are not yet finished, and you start out by being impudent to your poor old father.
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