thankful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 感谢的， 欣慰的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.
-- She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know very well that you can have no tenderness for me; I ask for none; I am even thankful that it cannot be.'
-- Cheer up, and have a thankful heart.'
-- Devoutly thankful to Heaven for his re-covered self-possession, he thought, 'There is but another now,' and turned to walk again.
-- 'I am thankful that the time has come, when I can prove them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's nothing I'm so thankful to the revival of the old fashions for as the kissing the hand."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At all events, there was one thing to be thankful for; Passepartout was not with his master; and it was above all important, after the confidences Fix had imparted to him, that the servant should never have speech with his master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he takes,' said my mother, with the tears which wereengendered in her affectionate nature, stealing down her face, 'hetakes great pains with me; and I ought to be very thankful to him,and very submissive to him even in my thoughts; and when I amnot, Peggotty, I worry and condemn myself, and feel doubtful ofmy own heart, and don't know what to do.'
-- She was tender-hearted, too; for when, as we sat round the fireafter tea, an allusion was made by Mr. Peggotty over his pipe to theloss I had sustained, the tears stood in her eyes, and she looked atme so kindly across the table, that I felt quite thankful to her.
-- I am sure I can never feel thankful enoughfor the generosity with which he has protected me, so muchyounger and lower in the school than himself.'
-- We live in a umble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much tobe thankful for.
-- 'But we have much to be thankful for.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a les-son, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have been thankful to be assured of never seeing him again.
-- This is in the supposition of his attachment continuing what it now is; but I do not know that I expect it will; I do not look upon him to be quite the sort of man I do not altogether build upon his steadiness or constancy. His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable. Every consideration of the subject, in short, makes me thankful that my happiness is not more deeply involved. I shall do very well again after a little while and then, it will be a 320 Emmagood thing over; for they say every body is in love once in their lives, and I shall have been let off easily.'
-- I always say a woman cannot have too many resources and I feel very thankful that I have so many myself as to be quite independent of society.'
-- ' And from her great, her more than commonly thankful delight towards Mrs. Elton for being there, Emma guessed that there had been a little show of resentment towards Jane, from the vic-arage quarter, which was now graciously overcome. After a few whispers, indeed, which placed it beyond a guess, Mrs. Elton, speaking louder, said, 'Yes, here I am, my good friend; and here I have been so long, that anywhere else I should think it necessary to apologise; but, the truth is, that I am waiting for my lord and master.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am thankful for beauty, even when 'tis thrown to me like a bone to a dog.
-- "Very well, then; you should be thankful to me for biding.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett turned away from Mammy with studied nonchalance, thankful that her face had been unnoticed inMammy's preoccupation with the matter of the shawl.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My left arm was a good deal burned to the elbow, and, less severely, as high as the shoulder; it was very painful, but the flames had set in that direction, and I felt thankful it was no worse.
-- But when I heard the Sunday bells, and looked around a little more upon the outspread beauty, I felt that I was not nearly thankful enough,--that I was too weak yet to be even that,--and I laid my head on Joe's shoulder, as I had laid it long ago when he had taken me to the Fair or where not, and it was too much for my young senses.
-- I too had fallen into the old ways, only happy and thankful that he let me.
-- "I feel thankful that I have been ill, Joe," I said.
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