elaborate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 精心计划的; 复杂的, 详尽的; vt. 做详细说明，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs of the most beautiful colors and elaborate patterns, the clothes manu-factured from which should have the wonderful property of remaining invisible to everyone who was unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although her dress, her coiffure, and all the preparations for the ball had cost Kitty great trouble and consideration, at this moment she walked into the ballroom in her elaborate tulle dress over a pink slip as easily and simply as though all the rosettes and lace, all the minute details of her attire, had not cost her or her family a moment's attention, as though she had been born in that tulle and lace, with her hair done up high on her head, and a rose and two leaves on the top of it.
-- He looked at her hair done up high, with the long white veil and white flowers and the high, stand-up, scalloped collar, that in such a maidenly fashion hid her long neck at the sides and only showed it in front, her strikingly slender figure, and it seemed to him that she looked better than ever--not because these flowers, this veil, this gown from Paris added anything to her beauty; but because, in spite of the elaborate sumptuousness of her attire, the expression of her sweet face, of her eyes, of her lips was still her own characteristic expression of guileless truthfulness.
-- Chapter 6 When the ceremony of plighting troth was over, the beadle spread before the lectern in the middle of the church a piece of pink silken stuff, the choir sang a complicated and elaborate psalm, in which the bass and tenor sang responses to one another, and the priest turning round pointed the bridal pair to the pink silk rug.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had heard that Tredgold, an elaborate but easy-spoken man of forty- five, moved as one clad in purple on the loftiest planes of Nautilus society.
-- When they had been herded back to the drawing-room, after masculine but achingly elaborate passings of the port, Capitola swooped on him with white devouring wings: "Dear Dr. Arrowsmith, I really didn't get a chance at dinner to ask you just exactly WHAT you are doing.
-- As I gather it, you are explaining to me that occasionally it's necessary to take some time to elaborate an experiment.
-- In that week, using a score of workmen from the most immaculate and elaborate scientific supply-house in the country, she had created for him the best bacteriological laboratory he had ever seen--white-tile floor and enameled brick walls, ice-box and incubator, glassware and stains and microscope, a perfect constant- temperature bath--and a technician, trained in Lister and Rockefeller, who had his bedroom behind the laboratory and who announced his readiness to serve Dr. Arrowsmith day or night.
-- "They've worked out elaborate charts classifying all intellectual occupations and interests, with the methods and materials and tools, and especially the goals--the aims, the ideals, the moral purposes--that are suited to each of them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are certainly quite right about it,' Porfiry began gaily, looking with extraordinary simplicity at Raskol-nikov (which startled him and instantly put him on his guard); 'certainly quite right in laughing so wittily at our legal forms, he-he!Some of these elaborate psychological 478 Crime and Punishmentmethods are exceedingly ridiculous and perhaps useless, if one adheres too closely to the forms.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I quite understand," he said with elaborate gravity, but as he turned and gave Melanie a searching look that wentto the bottom of her sweet worried eyes, his expression changed, reluctant respect and gentleness coming over his darkface.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe put his mouth into the forms of returning such a highly elaborate answer, that I could make out nothing of it but the single word "Pip."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle was careful to note every hour the indications of the compass, of the manometer, and of the thermometer, all which he afterwards published in his elaborate philosophical and scientific account of our remarkable voyage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To enable this girl to earn her few weekly shillings, it was necessary for the Child of the Marshalsea to go through an elaborate form with the Father.
-- The last house in Bleeding Heart Yard which she had described as his place of habitation, was a large house, let off to various tenants; but Plornish ingeniously hinted that he lived in the parlour, by means of a painted hand under his name, the forefinger of which hand (on which the artist had depicted a ring and a most elaborate nail of the genteelest form) referred all inquirers to that apartment.
-- It occurred to Arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business such as the records of the Circumlocution Office made perhaps might be far less serviceable, as being meant to be far less intelligible.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no display of gifts, for they were already in the little house, nor was there an elaborate breakfast, but a plentiful lunch of cake and fruit, dressed with flowers.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this hint, attempts have been made to construct elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale.
-- And Lac脙漏p脙篓de, the French naturalist, in his elaborate history of whales, in the very beginning of his work (page 3), sets down the Right Whale at one hundred metres, three hundred and twenty-eight feet.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie had seen one or two elaborate performances there and had heard of several others.
-- Amid what elegancies of carved furniture, decorated walls, elaborate tapestries did they move?
-- On the walls were designs in colour, square spots of robin's-egg blue, set in ornate frames of gilt, whose corners were elaborate mouldings of fruit and flowers, with fat cupids hovering in angelic comfort.
-- Her eye was once more taken by the show of wealth--the elaborate costumes, elegant harnesses, spirited horses, and, above all, the beauty.
-- Eyes were riveted upon the more elaborate efforts of the stars.
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