substantial是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可观的, 大量的; 牢固的, 结实的; 实质的, 真实的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Argued with the jury on substantial worldly grounds the only grounds ever worth taking into account it was a plain case, and had not a weak spot in it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was he not a young doctor who would soon be investing money, one of the most Substantial Citizens in Wheatsylvania?
-- Best opportunity in the world to meet the substantial citizens.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marfa Petrovna had not the slightest intention of settling anything substantial on him, having regard for his children's interests, and, if she left him anything, it would only be the merest sufficiency, something insignificant and ephemeral, which would not last a year for a man of his habits.'
-- For if a man is guilty, you must be able to get something substantial out of him; one may reckon upon most surprising results indeed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One joyful night, therefore, I noted down the music of theparliamentary bagpipes for the last time, and I have never heard itsince; though I still recognise the old drone in the newspapers,without any substantial variation (except, perhaps, that there ismore of it) all the livelong session.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, one excellent result of her general apathy was the long-delayed installation of Oak as bailiff; but he having virtually exercised that function for a long time already, the change, beyond the substantial increase of wages it brought, was little more than a nominal one addressed to the outside world.
-- This was considered an unexceptionable place for obtaining the necessary food and rest: Host Trencher (as he was jauntily called by the local newspaper) being a substantial man of high repute for catering through all the country round.
-- Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other's character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she wished that something more substantial than cheesecloth was between her skirt and the spittoonthat stood just outside the booth, for the aim of the horsemen with amber streams of tobacco juice was not so unerringas with their long horse pistols.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to apprehend my meaning; for, lifting up the lappet of his coat, he put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to his master, who was a substantial farmer, and the same person I had first seen in the field.
-- It was only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of a husbandman,) in a dish of about four-and-twenty feet diameter.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at these recent fissures in the granite roof; it is evidently formed of pieces of enormous stone, placed here as if by the hand of a giant, who had worked to make a strong and substantial arch.
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：
-- Vaguely she knew she was out of connexion: she had lost touch with the substantial and vital world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once upon a time Clennam had sat at that table taking no heed of anything but Flora; now the principal heed he took of Flora was to observe, against his will, that she was very fond of porter, that she combined a great deal of sherry with sentiment, and that if she were a little overgrown, it was upon substantial grounds.
-- It was bright and shining there; and when he found himself so far on his road to Twickenham, he found himself a long way on his road to a number of airier and less substantial destinations.
-- But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of a ham in a perspiration with the pace it was going at, of a shallow tank of baked potatoes glued together by their own richness, of a truss or two of boiled greens, and other substantial delicacies.
-- His old sweetheart, being in fact so near at hand that she was then reclining against him in a flutter, a very substantial angle of forty-five degrees, here interposed to assure Mistress Affery with greater earnestness than directness of asseveration, that what she heard should go no further, but should be kept inviolate, 'if on no other account on Arthur's sensible of intruding in being too familiar Doyce and Clennam's.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the fare was of the most substantial kind not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens!dumplings for supper!One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
-- A fact thus set down in substantial history cannot easily be gainsaid.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If so, let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born; the reader taking it for granted that there are good and substantial reasons for making the journey, or he would not be invited to proceed upon such an expedition.
-- There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, require peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could see him instantly before her, in every charm of air and address; but she could remember no more substantial good than the general approbation of the neighbourhood, and the regard which his social powers had gained him in the mess.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hurstwood looked the part, for, besides being slightly under forty, he had a good, stout constitution, an active manner, and a solid, substantial air, which was composed in part of his fine clothes, his clean linen, his jewels, and, above all, his own sense of his importance.
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