mature是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 使成熟, 使成长; a. 成熟的, 充分发展的，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：
-- After mature reflection, Lord Glenarvan and John Mangles came to the determination to sail round the Australian coast, stopping at Cape Bernouilli, and continuing their route south as far as Melbourne, where the DUNCAN could speedily be put right.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general considered that the girls' taste and good sense should be allowed to develop and mature deliberately, and that the parents' duty should merely be to keep watch, in or-der that no strange or undesirable choice be made; but that the selection once effected, both father and mother were bound from that moment to enter heart and soul into the cause, and to see that the matter progressed without hin-drance until the altar should be happily reached.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every time he resolved within himself, after mature inquiry that it was all a dream, his mind flew back again, like a strong spring re-leased, to its first position, andpresented the same problem to be worked all through, 'Was it a dream or not?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The resemblance was not lessened by the accidental circumstance, that the mature Jerry bit and spat out straw, while the twinkling eyes of the youthful Jerry were as restlessly watchful of him as of everything else in Fleet-street.
-- The gaoler standing at his side, and the other gaolers moving about, who would have been well enough as to appearance in the ordinary exercise of their functions, looked so extravagantly coarse contrast-ed with sorrowing mothers and blooming daughters who were there with the apparitions of the coquette, the young beauty, and the mature woman delicately bred that the in-version of all experience and likelihood which the scene of shadows presented, was heightened to its utmost.
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：
-- It could be seen, however, that her per-son, though molded with the same exquisite proportions, of which none of the graces were lost by the traveling dress she wore, was rather fuller and more mature than that of her companion.
-- Gathering no encouragement from this startling pres-age of the nature of the scrutiny he was likely to undergo from the more mature judgments of the men, there was an instant when the young soldier would have retreated.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They decided that this new, mature Martin, this new, hard-eyed Leora were ready to throw away everything for each other.
-- He sounded mature and rather angry.
-- At clinic luncheons he met surgeons from London, New York, Boston; men with limousines and social positions and the offensive briskness of the man who has numerous engagements, or the yet more offensive quietness of the person who is amused by his inferiors; master technicians, readers of papers at medical congresses, executives and controllers, unafraid to operate before a hundred peering doctors, or to give well-bred and exceedingly final orders to subordinates; captain- generals of medicine, never doubting themselves, great priests and healers; men mature and wise and careful and blandly cordial.
-- II While Martin developed in a jagged way from the boy of Wheatsylvania to mature man, his relations to Leora developed from loyal boy-and-girl adventurousness to lasting solidity.
-- Called in from the laboratory, a rather young man in a wrinkled soft collar, dizzy still with the details of Erlenmeyer flasks, infusorial earth, and sterile filters, Martin was confronted by the Men of Measured Merriment, and found that he was no longer concealed in the invisibility of insignificance but regarded as a leader who was expected not only to produce miracles but to explain beforehand how important and mature and miraculous he was.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such is the mature fruit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some men in his blighted position would have taken to drinking; but as Mr Swiveller had taken to that before, he only took, on receiving the news that Sophy Wackles was lost to him for ever, to playing the flute; thinking after mature consideration that it was a good, sound, dismal occupation, not only in unison with his own sad thoughts, but calculated to awaken a fellow-feeling in the bosoms of his neighbours.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as I was not in a condition to resent injuries, so upon mature thoughts I began to doubt whether I was injured or no.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought of Rachael, how young when they were first brought together in these circumstances, how mature now, how soon to grow old.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Not that at any time,' she proceeded, 'its worst enemy could have said it was a cheerful house for that it was never made to be but always highly impressive, fond memory recalls an occasion in youth ere yet the judgment was mature when Arthur confirmed habit Mr Clennam took me down into an unused kitchen eminent for mouldiness and proposed to secrete me there for life and feed me on what he could hide from his meals when he was not at home for the holidays and on dry bread in disgrace which at that halcyon period too frequently occurred, would it be inconvenient or asking too much to beg to be permitted to revive those scenes and walk through the house?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I wasn't too old for such things, I'd rather like to play it over again,' said Amy, who began to talk of renouncing childish things at the mature age of twelve.
-- Always mature for her age, she had gained a certain aplomb in both carriage and conversation, which made her seem more of a woman of the world than she was, but her old petulance now and then showed itself, her strong will still held its own, and her native frankness was unspoiled by foreign polish.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In short, after some more examination, and a great deal more conversation, a neighbouring magistrate was readily induced to take the joint bail of Mrs. Maylie and Mr. Losberne for Oliver's appearance if he should ever be called upon; and Blathers and Duff, being rewarded with a couple of guineas, returned to town with divided opinions on the subject of their expedition: the latter gentleman on a mature consideration of all the circumstances, inclining to the belief that the burglarious attempt had originated with the Family Pet; and the former being equally disposed to concede the full merit of it to the great Mr. Conkey Chickweed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You must decide for yourself,' said Elizabeth; 'and if, upon mature deliberation, you find that the misery of disobliging his two sisters is more than equivalent to the happiness of being his wife, I advise you by all means to refuse him.'
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