considerable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 相当大的; 重要的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore I had better leave her sitting on a baker's door-step, outof breath, with no shape at all remaining in her bonnet, and one ofher shoes off, lying on the pavement at a considerable distance.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And you have forgotten one matter of joy to me,' said Emma, 'and a very considerable one that I made the match myself.
-- She had not advanced many yards from Mrs. Goddard's door, when she was met by Mr. Elton himself, evidently coming towards it, and as they walked on slowly together in conversation about the invalid of whom he, on the ru-mour of considerable illness, had been going to inquire, that he might carry some report of her to Hartfield they were overtaken by Mr. John Knightley returning from the daily visit to Donwell, with his two eldest boys, whose healthy, glowing faces shewed all the benefit of a country run, and seemed to ensure a quick despatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for.
-- I have no doubt of his having, at times, considerable influence; but it may be perfectly im-possible for him to know beforehand when it will be.'
-- It was a dislike so little just every imputed fault was so magnified by fancy, that she never saw Jane Fairfax the first time after any considerable absence, without feeling that she had injured her; and now, when the due visit was paid, on her arrival, after a two years' interval, she was particu-larly struck with the very appearance and manners, which for those two whole years she had been depreciating.
-- She appeared to me to play 244 Emmawell, that is, with considerable taste, but I know nothing of the matter myself. I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of any body's performance. I have been used to hear her's admired; and I remember one proof of her being thought to play well: a man, a very musical man, and in love with another wom-an engaged to her on the point of marriage would yet never ask that other woman to sit down to the instrument, if the lady in question could sit down instead never seemed to like to hear one if he could hear the other.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was being carried along the road at a rate rather considerable for a vehicle without springs, and under circumstances of physical uneasiness, his head being dandled up and down on the bed of the waggon like a kettledrum-stick.
-- "We hear that ye be a extraordinary good and clever man, shepherd," said Joseph Poorgrass with considerable anxiety from behind the maltster's bedstead, whither he had retired for safety.
-- He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension.
-- ON CASTERBRIDGE HIGHWAYFor a considerable time the woman walked on.
-- Then her eye followed Oak's, and she read the words with which the inscription opened: Erected by Francis TroyIn Beloved Memory ofFanny RobinOak saw her, and his first act was to gaze inquiringly and learn how she received this knowledge of the authorship of the work, which to himself had caused considerable astonishment.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Goriot had brought with him a considerable wardrobe, the gorgeous outfit of a retired tradesman who denies himself nothing.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
-- We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.
-- 117Chapter 11 t is with considerable difficulty that I remember the 'Ioriginal era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct.
-- 'A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing de-gree.
-- We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been under considerable strain ever since he first arrived and found thatone of his fellow diners was this man whom he disliked so heartily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had been struck with something blunt and heavy, on the head and spine; after the blows were dealt, something heavy had been thrown down at her with considerable violence, as she lay on her face.
-- Then I bethought me of a crutch, the shape being much the same, and I borrowed one in the village, and displayed it to my sister with considerable confidence.
-- Chapter XIXMorning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same.
-- Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity.
-- This was very singular to me, and I looked at her in considerable perplexity.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He directed that those who had already beheld me should return home, and not presume to come within fifty yards of my house, without license from the court; whereby the secretaries of state got considerable fees.
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