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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "One more will make but little difference, poor beast!"
-- Poor Neb shed bitter tears, giving way to despair at the thought of having lost the only being he loved on earth.
-- So saying, he offered the poor Negro a few handfuls of shell-fish, which was indeed wretched and insufficient food.
-- said the boy, and very cleverly, without breaking it, he managed to draw out the wretched yet precious little bit of wood which was of such great importance to these poor men.
-- The hard eggs were excellent, and as eggs contain everything indispensable to man's nourishment, these poor people thought themselves well off, and were much strengthened by them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, the children of the poor know but few pleasures.
-- 'She always laughs at poor Kit.'
-- 'She is poor now' said the old man, patting the child's cheek, 'but I say again that the time is coming when she shall be rich.
-- 'How like a poor man he talks!'
-- 'And yet,' said the old man dropping his voice and speaking like one who thinks aloud, 'how poor we are, and what a life it is!The cause is a young child's guiltless of all harm or wrong, but nothing goes well with it!Hope and patience, hope and patience!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The poor man will think ten times before he will marry, while the rich man can satisfy his every whim.
-- If the land is to be given gratis to the peasants, then why should some get good land, and others poor land?
-- But there is good land, and there is poor land.
-- He had no means of determining the respective needs of the individuals, and yet he could not help giving these evidently poor people money.
-- Poor Hellen told me at the time you lived at the old maids' house that, I believe, they wished you to marry their ward."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That would be my only hope, a poor hope, perhaps, but better than despair.
-- When I realised this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and, wading in at a point lower down, I caught the poor mite and drew her safe to land.
-- It was plain that they had left her poor little body in the forest.
-- They say life is a dream, a precious poor dream at times but I can't stand another that won't fit.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.
-- Alice was very anxious to be of use, and, as the poor little Lily was nearly screaming herself into a fit, she hastily picked up the Queen and set her on the table by the side of her noisy little daughter.
-- The poor King looked puzzled and unhappy, and struggled with the pencil for some time without saying anything; but Alice was too strong for him, and at last he panted out, 'My dear!I really must get a thinner pencil.
-- thought poor puzzled Alice.
-- The consequence of this was that it tickled her ear very much, and quite took off her thoughts from the unhappiness of the poor little creature.
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