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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus did they turn upon the Trojans and slay them, and the Achaeans were thankful to have breathing time in their flight from Hector.
-- See how Proma-chus now sleeps, vanquished by my spear; payment for my brother's blood has not been long delayed; a man, therefore, may well be thankful if he leaves a kinsman in his house be-hind him to avenge his fall.'
-- Glaucus perceived this, and was thankful that the mighty god had answered his prayer; forthwith, therefore, he went among the Lycian captains, and bade them come to fight about the body of Sarpedon.
-- Meanwhile the rabble of routed Trojans was thankful to crowd within the city till their numbers thronged it; no longer did they dare wait for one another outside the city walls, to learn who had escaped and who were fallen in fight, but all whose feet and knees could still carry them poured pell-mell into the town.
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：
-- None can say they have ever known me to neglect my gifts!I am thankful that, though my boyhood may be said to have been set apart, like the youth of the royal David, for the purposes of music, no syl-lable of rude verse has ever profaned my lips.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a kind and thankful creature, whose heart dilat-ed in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer, and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no other company in the kitchen but the two showmen, and the child felt very thankful that they had fallen upon such good quarters.
-- We are very thankful to you,' she added aloud; 'but neither of us could part from the other if all the wealth of the world were halved between us.'
-- I ought to be thankful of it.'
-- By morning's cheerful glow, but oftener still by evening's gentle light, the child, with a respect for the short and happy intercourse of these two sisters which forbade her to approach and say a thankful word, although she yearned to do so, followed them at a distance in their walks and rambles, stopping when they stopped, sitting on the grass when they sat down, rising when they went on, and feeling it a companionship and delight to be so near them.
-- The key of this chamber happened by good fortune to be on that side of the door which was in Nell's room; she turned it on him when the landlady had withdrawn, and crept to bed again with a thankful heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am very, very thankful to you for everything."
-- "On the contrary, I am very thankful to you for the opportunity----" When she understood that he consented her face turned a purple color and she became silent.
-- It is I who ought to be thankful to you."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mother," said I, "take the whole and let's be going," for I was sure the bolted door must have seemed suspicious and would bring the whole hornet's nest about our ears, though how thankful I was that I had bolted it, none could tell who had never met that terrible blind man.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gudrun was very thankful that none of her party asked him what was the matter with the hand.
-- Didn't the servants have a life of it!And didn't we used to be thankful when one of them caught it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last it occurred to my thoughts that I shook a bag of chickens' meat out in that place; and then the wonder began to cease; and I must confess my religious thankfulness to God's providence began to abate, too, upon the discovering that all this was nothing but what was common; though I ought to have been as thankful for so strange and unforeseen a providence as if it had been miraculous; for it was really the work of Providence to me, that should order or appoint that ten or twelve grains of corn should remain unspoiled, when the rats had destroyed all the rest, as if it had been dropped from heaven; as also, that I should throw it out in that par-ticular place, where, it being in the shade of a high rock, it sprang up immediately; whereas, if I had thrown it any-where else at that time, it had been burnt up and destroyed.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all.
-- Elinor kept her concern and her censure to herself; and was very thankful that Marianne was not present, to share the provocation.
-- CHAPTER 35Elinor's curiosity to see Mrs. Ferrars was satisfied. She had found in her every thing that could tend to make a farther connection between the families undesirable. She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness, and her determined prejudice against herself, to comprehend all the difficulties that must have perplexed the engagement, and retarded the marriage, of Edward and herself, had he been otherwise free; and she had seen almost enough to be thankful for her OWN sake, that one greater obstacle preserved her from suffering under any other of Mrs. Ferrars's creation, preserved her from all dependence upon her caprice, or any solicitude for her good opinion.
-- Her voice sunk with the word, but presently reviving she added,"I am thankful to find that I can look with so little pain on the spot! shall we ever talk on that subject, Elinor?
-- Mrs. Dashwood, too happy to be comfortable, knew not how to love Edward, nor praise Elinor enough, how to be enough thankful for his release without wounding his delicacy, nor how at once to give them leisure for unrestrained conversation together, and yet enjoy, as she wished, the sight and society of both.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the others softened up a little, too, and I was mighty thankful to that old doctor for doing Jim that good turn; and I was glad it was according to my judg- ment of him, too; because I thought he had a good heart in him and was a good man the first time I see him.
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