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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mimosas growing on the western part, and the substantial herbage on the eastern, give those plains a peculiar appearance.
-- Disdaining the feathered tribes when more substantial game was at hand, the hunters' first shots were fired into the underwood.
-- The substantial dishes were reserved for the night-comers, and the three hunters contented themselves with devouring the partridges, and washed down their meal with clear, fresh water, which was pronounced superior to all the porter in the world, even to the famous Highland USQUEBAUGH, or whisky.
-- Then the Patagonian led the way into the HANGAR of a deserted ESTANCIA, where there was a good, blazing fire to warm them, and a substantial meal of fine, juicy slices of venison soon broiling, of which they did not leave a crumb.
-- The nardou, which grew abundantly in dried up creeks, supplied us with tolerably substantial bread, and we had no longer any fears for our material life.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides tea and coffee, cheese, honey, butter, pan-cakes of various kinds (the lady of the house loved these best), cutlets, and so on, there was generally strong beef soup, and other substantial delicacies.
-- The advice of all these agitated ladies was that the prince should go at once and knock at Rogojin's until he was let in: and when let in insist upon a substantial explanation of everything.
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：
-- Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial difference which exists in the latter.
-- * A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the musical disciples who assembled, one eve-ning in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neb relighted his stove, and the stores in the larder furnished a substantial repast, to which all did ample justice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this substantial comfort, the dwarf regaled himself to his heart's content; and being highly satisfied with this free and gipsy mode of life (which he had often meditated, as offering, whenever he chose to avail himself of it, an agreeable freedom from the restraints of matrimony, and a choice means of keeping Mrs Quilp and her mother in a state of incessant agitation and suspense), bestirred himself to improve his retreat, and render it more commodious and comfortable.
-- 'Now I look at it again, I fancy I see a yes, there certainly is something in the smile that reminds me of and yet upon my word I 'Now, the fact was, that Sampson, having never seen anything in the smallest degree resembling this substantial phantom, was much perplexed; being uncertain whether Mr Quilp considered it like himself, and had therefore bought it for a family portrait; or whether he was pleased to consider it as the likeness of some enemy.
-- But, not so Mr Abel; or the strong man who emptied the hamper, big as it was, in a twinkling; and not so the nice old lady, who appeared so suddenly that she might have come out of the hamper too (it was quite large enough), and who, bustling about on tiptoe and without noise now here, now there, now everywhere at once began to fill out the jelly in tea-cups, and to make chicken broth in small saucepans, and to peel oranges for the sick man and to cut them up in little pieces, and to ply the small servant with glasses of wine and choice bits of everything until more substantial meat could be prepared for her refreshment.
-- So well, indeed, was his modest and retiring temper understood by those with whom he had to deal, and so jealous were they of his absence, that they required a kind of friendly bond to be entered into by two substantial housekeepers, in the sum of fifteen hundred pounds a-piece, before they would suffer him to quit their hospitable roof doubting, it appeared, that he would return, if once let loose, on any other terms.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They went through Monroe Street to the old Windsor dining-room, which was then a large, comfortable place, with an excellent cuisine and substantial service.
-- It would have accorded with her expectations if nothing had been said, but there in the squibs, tailing off several more substantial items, was a wee notice.
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