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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harry's voyages were prosperous from the first, and a few years after Robert was born, he found himself possessed of a considerable fortune.
-- A considerable crowd visited her every day, and the DUNCAN was the one topic of interest and conversation, to the great vexation of the different captains in the port, among others of Captain Burton, in command of the SCOTIA, a magnificent steamer lying close beside her, and bound for Calcutta.
-- Its attacks are particularly dreaded at the ESTANCIAS, or sheep stations, as it often commits considerable ravages, carrying off the finest of the flock.
-- The violence of the storm had abated, but it had developed in the atmosphere a considerable quantity of vapors, to which electricity was about to communicate immense force.
-- During its recital, a considerable part of the troop had filed past in good order.
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：
-- In spite of his considerable wealth he was simple in his personal tastes, and his indoor servants at Baskerville Hall consisted of a married couple named Barrymore, the husband act-ing as butler and the wife as housekeeper.
-- My wife and I will be happy, Sir Henry, to stay with you until you have made your fresh arrangements, but you will understand that under the new conditions this house will require a considerable staff.'
-- There is strong reason now to believe that he has got right away, which is a considerable relief to the lonely householders of this district.
-- The fact is that our friend, the baronet, begins to display a considerable interest in our fair neighbour.
-- Sir Henry had to assure him that it was not so and pacify him by giving him a considerable part of his old wardrobe, the London outfit having now all arrived.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked the prince, looking at the millionaire with considerable curiosity But though there may have been something remarkable in the fact that this man was heir to millions of roubles there was something about him which surprised and interested the prince more than that.
-- Rogojin, too, seemed to have taken up the conversation with unusual alacrity it appeared that he was still in a considerable state of excitement, if not abso-lutely feverish, and was in real need of someone to talk to for the mere sake of talking, as safety-valve to his agitation.
-- She is connected with one Totski, Afanasy Ivanovitch, a man of considerable property, a director of companies, and so on, and a great friend of General Epanchin, who is interested in the same matters as he is.'
-- Of course they were only Epanchins, but their mother's family was noble; they might expect considerable fortunes; their father had hopes of attaining to very high rank indeed in his country's service-all of which was satis-factory.
-- This youngest girl was absolutely a beauty, and had begun of late to attract considerable at-tention in society.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She put down the eggs and bacon with considerable emphasis, and called rather than said to him, "Your lunch is served, sir."
-- On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among the adolescent, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He reminded me of it with considerable vigour; but at any rate I prevented a fight.
-- I rebuilt my den in the walls of the enclosure, with such a narrow opening that anything attempting to enter must necessarily make a considerable noise.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
-- I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight.
-- I judged I could see that there was two Providences, and a poor chap would stand considerable show with the widow's Providence, but if Miss Wat- son's got him there warn't no help for him any more.
-- 'You've put on considerable many frills since I been away.
-- Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed every- thing and every-body he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he pol-ished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing.
扩展阅读：