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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were several more that had been equally great in the field, not one of whom but was persuaded that he had a considerable hand in bringing the war to a happy termination.
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：
-- He wrote his biography芒聭露 avowedly to "remove certain misconceptions which had gained currency" in regard to the later part of his father's life, and which had "caused considerable pain to persons still living."
-- Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era in which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It can be thus easily understood that when it is lightened of any considerable weight its movement will be impetuous and sudden.
-- The balloon, which the wind still drove towards the southwest, had since daybreak gone a considerable distance, which might be reckoned by hundreds of miles, and a tolerably high land had, in fact, appeared in that direction.
-- The rising tide and it could already be perceived must drive it back with force to a considerable distance.
-- The wood, being very dry, would burn rapidly; it was therefore necessary to carry to the Chimneys a considerable quantity, and the loads of two men would not be sufficient.
-- In certain places, less crowded, growing in clumps, these pines exhibited considerable dimensions, and appeared to indicate, by their development, that the country was situated in a higher latitude than the engineer had supposed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned hastily round and found at my elbow a pretty little girl, who begged to be directed to a certain street at a considerable distance, and indeed in quite another quarter of the town.
-- It was some two minutes after the time when he reached the spot, which was a considerable distance from his home, but by great good luck the little old gentleman had not yet arrived; at least there was no pony-chaise to be seen, and it was not likely that he had come and gone again in so short a space.
-- Messrs Codlin and Short, after looking at each other with considerable doubt and indecision, at length sat down each on the extreme edge of the chair pointed out to him and held their hats very tight, while the single gentleman filled a couple of glasses from a bottle on the table beside him, and presented them in due form.
-- But as clay in the abstract, when too much moistened, becomes of a weak and uncertain consistency, breaking down in unexpected places, retaining impressions but faintly, and preserving no strength or steadiness of character, so Mr Swiveller's clay, having imbibed a considerable quantity of moisture, was in a very loose and slippery state, insomuch that the various ideas impressed upon it were fast losing their distinctive character, and running into each other.
-- For the better preservation of his cheerfulness therefore, and to prevent his faculties from rusting, he provided himself with a cribbage-board and pack of cards, and accustomed himself to play at cribbage with a dummy, for twenty, thirty, or sometimes even fifty thousand pounds aside, besides many hazardous bets to a considerable amount.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These strangely gazing eyes were turned on Nekhludoff for a considerable time.
-- "Of course there is considerable truth in Darwin's theory," said the returning Kolosoff, stretching himself on a low arm-chair and looking through sleepy eyes at the Princess, "but he goes too far."
-- She was particularly impressed by the fact that the men paid considerable attention to her wherever she went.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said he had seen a similar thing at T脙录bingen, and laid considerable stress on the blowing-out of the candle.
-- I had some considerable difficulty in conveying my meaning.
-- "Again, the exclusive tendency of richer people due, no doubt, to the increasing refinement of their education, and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor is already leading to the closing, in their interest, of considerable portions of the surface of the land.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cannon-shot was followed after a considerable interval by a volley of small arms.
-- 34 And LastHE next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this great mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three miles by boat to the Hispaniola, was a considerable task for so small a number of workmen.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under this the Abraham Lincoln attained the mean speed of nearly eighteen knots and a third an hour a considerable speed, but, nevertheless, insufficient to grapple with this gigantic cetacean.
-- Its tail, violently agitated, produced a considerable eddy.
-- Therefore I can sink to a considerable depth.
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