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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She came in, purring the poor beast was starving and I gave her some milk.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor devil went down like a felled ox, and rolled in the dirt among the furiously excited dogs.
-- 'Your sailors began to haze the poor devil as soon as he came aboard.'
-- The poor brute seemed horribly scared, and crouched in the bottom of its little cage.
-- Made a dead set at the poor devil.
-- Then the poor brute within gave vent to a series of short, sharp cries.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys.
-- 'To be bitten by wolves, poor child!He is a handsome boy.
-- 'This is a poor reward for following thee twenty miles.
-- 'I am a very poor man,' he sobbed.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Poor Miriam!'
-- 'The poor fellow has saved his scalp,' said Hawkeye, cool-ly passing his hand over the head of David; 'but he is a proof that a man may be born with too long a tongue!
-- 'Poor fellow!thine own period was, in truth, near its ac-complishment!But arouse, and come with me; I will lead you where all other sounds but those of your own psalmody shall be excluded.'
-- 'Poor fellow!his voice is too feeble to be heard above the din of the falls,' was the answer; 'beside, the cavern will prove his friend.
-- returned the attentive scout; 'tis man; even I can now tell his tread, poor as my senses are when compared to an Indian's!That Scampering Huron has fallen in with one of Montcalm's outlying parties, and they have struck upon our trail.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon bright-ness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.
-- They harried his hitherto peaceful domains, smoked out his singing- school by stopping up the chimney, broke into the schoolhouse at night, in spite of its formidable fastenings of withe and window stakes, and turned everything topsy-turvy, so that the poor schoolmaster began to think all the witches in the country held their meetings there.
-- Was her encouragement of the poor pedagogue all a mere sham to secure her conquest of his rival?
-- Hans Van Ripper now began to feel some uneasiness about the fate of poor Ichabod, and his saddle.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of their elders some, by imitating the antics of youth, strive to persuade themselves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds hollow in their mouth; they are like poor wantons attempting with pencil, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety, to recover the illusion of their spring.
-- I think he must have read the verse of these young men who were making so great a stir in the world, and I fancy he found it poor stuff.
-- I fancy she's rather simple, poor dear, and she thinks we're all wonderful.
-- I wondered if the poor devil had been hammered on the Stock Exchange or run over by an omnibus.
-- She began to cry, poor thing, and I felt very sorry for her.
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