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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Helena looked at him in surprise, which quite deprived him of his remaining sang-froid; but seeing his embarrassment, she took Mary away to the side of the tent, where M. Olbinett was laying out an elaborate breakfast.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But why this elaborate deception?'
-- He might claim the property from South America, establish his identity be-fore the British authorities there and so obtain the fortune without ever coming to England at all; or he might adopt an elaborate disguise during the short time that he need be in London; or, again, he might furnish an accomplice with the proofs and papers, putting him in as heir, and retaining a claim upon some proportion of his income.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My idea was to procure clothing to make myself a muffled but acceptable figure, to get money, and then to recover my books and parcels where they awaited me, take a lodging somewhere and elaborate plans for the complete realisation of the advantages my invisibility gave me (as I still imagined) over my fellow-men.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His keys, and the elaborate locking-up of the place even while it was still under his eye, struck me as peculiar.
-- I was very much impressed by the elaborate secrecy of these two men regarding the contents of the place, and for some time I was thinking of that and of the unaccountable familiarity of the name of Moreau; but so odd is the hu-man memory that I could not then recall that well-known name in its proper connection.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She gave me elaborate answers to every possible observation of his.
-- From floor to ceiling the walls were covered with a strange and elaborate composition.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This word refining need not awake in the mind thoughts of an elaborate manufactory with apparatus and numerous workmen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So here, after all my elaborate preparations for the siege of the White Sphinx, was a meek surrender.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And with an elaborate sea-salute, this fellow, a long, ill-looking, yellow-eyed man of five and thirty, stepped coolly towards the door and disappeared out of the house.
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