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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was thankful to the fox, and did not attempt his life as his brothers had done; so the fox said, 'Sit upon my tail, and you will travel faster.'
-- Now do you lie down close by the child, and pretend to be watching it, and I will come out of the 28 Grimms' Fairy Taleswood and run away with it; you must run after me as fast as you can, and I will let it drop; then you may carry it back, and they will think you have saved their child, and will be so thankful to you that they will take care of you as long as you live.'
-- 'These little wights have made us rich, and we ought to be thankful to them, and do them a good turn if we can.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared in short, it was the only clear thing in the case that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; that they were restless, gentlemen; that they never knew what they wanted; that they lived upon the best, and bought fresh butter; and insisted on Mocha coffee, and rejected all but prime parts of meat, and yet were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable.
-- 'I am thankful I stayed!
-- After allowing herself to be betrayed into these evidences of emotion, she would force a lambent brightness, and would be fitfully cheerful, and would say, 'You have still good spirits, sir, I am thankful to find;' and would appear to hail it as a blessed dispensation that Mr. Bounderby bore up as he did.
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：
-- She was thankful to be alone.
-- I say to them, be thankful you're well fed and well clothed, without all the new finery you want!And they fly back at me: ''Why isn't Princess Mary thankful to go about in her old rags, then, an' have nothing!Folks like HER get van-loads, an' I can't have a new spring coat.
-- Connie was glad to go, when she had drunk her glass, and thankful she needn't help Clifford to bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am able,' said Mrs Clennam, with a slight motion of her worsted-muffled right hand toward a chair on wheels, standing before a tall writing cabinet close shut up, 'I am able to attend to my business duties, and I am thankful for the privilege.
-- 'I am very happy and very thankful to know it,' said the debtor, 'though I little thought once, that ''That a child would be born to you in a place like this?'
-- He was aware of motes and specks of suspicion in the atmosphere of that time; seen through which medium, Christopher Casby was a mere Inn signpost, without any Inn an invitation to rest and be thankful, when there was no place to put up at, and nothing whatever to be thankful for.
-- 'He'll be at no loss here, then. You have only to bear a little pain like a brave fellow, my friend, and to be thankful that all goes as well as it does,' he added, in that tongue, 'and you'll walk again to a marvel.
-- Very likely he would be thankful himself (and with reason), that he had had the means and chance of doing a little service to her, who well deserved a great one.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wondered, and was thankful also, that her parents did not seem to see what she saw, and during the quiet weeks when the shadows grew so plain to her, she said nothing of it to those at home, believing that it would tell itself when Beth came back no better.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, they were as pleasant a party as, under the circumstances, they could well have been; and it was late before they retired, with light and thankful hearts, to take that rest of which, after the doubt and suspense they had recently undergone, they stood much in need.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How wonderfully these sort of things oc-cur!Who would have thought of my meeting with, perhaps, a nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in this assembly!I am most thankful that the discovery is made in time for me to pay my respects to him, which I am now going to do, and trust he will excuse my not having done it before.
-- 'Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility.'
-- While Sir William was with them, Mr. Collins devot-ed his morning to driving him out in his gig, and showing him the country; but when he went away, the whole fam-ily returned to their usual employments, and Elizabeth was thankful to find that they did not see more of her cousin by the alteration, for the chief of the time between break-fast and dinner was now passed by him either at work in the garden or in reading and writing, and looking out of the window in his own book-room, which fronted the road.
-- How thankful am I that we never let them know what has been said against him; we must forget it ourselves.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found quickly the negroes wished to eat the flesh of this creature, so I was willing to have them take it as a favour from me; which, when I made signs to them that they might take him, they were very thankful for.
-- The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostu-late with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miser-able; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.
-- Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to com-fort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
-- - After I had got to shore, and escaped drowning, instead of being thankful to God for my deliverance, having first vomited, with the great quantity of salt water which had got into my stomach, and recovering myself a little, I ran about the shore wringing my hands and beating my head and face, exclaiming at my misery, and crying out, 'I was undone, undone!'
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