wonderful是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 惊人的, 奇妙的; 极好的,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In spite of the intense labour and wonderful dis-coveries of modern philosophers, I always came from my studies discontented and unsatisfied.
-- I doubted at first whether I should attempt the cre-ation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first suc-cess to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complete and wonderful as man.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!'
-- Any man who was foolenough to fall for a simper, a faint and an "Oh, how wonderful you are!"
-- It was a wonderful day for Charles, a dream day, and he had fallen in love with Scarlettwith no effort at all.
-- Scarlettwould have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: "How wonderful you are!"
-- How she envied them!How wonderful to be a man and never have to undergo miseries suchas she had just passed through.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But how could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day?
-- It was a wonderful equipage, with six great coronets outside, and ragged things behind for I don't know how many footmen to hold on by, and a harrow below them, to prevent amateur footmen from yielding to the temptation.
-- But she was so much changed, was so much more beautiful, so much more womanly, in all things winning admiration, had made such wonderful advance, that I seemed to have made none.
-- and then put the handkerchief to its right use with wonderful effect.
-- He's in wonderful feather.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After many, many years there came a king's son into that land: and an old man told him the story of the thicket of thorns; and how a beautiful palace stood behind it, and how a wonderful princess, called Briar Rose, lay in it asleep, with all her court.
-- 'What a wonderful thing!'
-- The king took the gift very graciously, and said he knew not what to give in return more valuable and wonderful than the great turnip; so the soldier was forced to put it into a cart, and drag it home with him.
-- Now the host had three daughters, who saw the goose and were curious to know what such a wonderful bird might be, and would have liked to have one of its golden feathers.
-- And he lent the king the wonderful sword, and he slew the enemy's army with it; and thus the kingdom was once more in peace and plenty.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Out of the right fob hung a great silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine at the bottom.
-- I was that day shown to twelve sets of company, and as often forced to act over again the same fopperies, till I was half dead with weariness and vexation; for those who had seen me made such wonderful reports, that the people were ready to break down the doors to come in.
-- After much debate, they concluded unanimously, that I was only relplum scalcath, which is interpreted literally lusus naturae; a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristo-tle endeavoured in vain to disguise their ignorance, have 125invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.
-- He had two large rooms full of wonderful curiosities, and fifty men at work.
-- 'What wonderful discoveries should we make in astron-omy, by outliving and confirming our own predictions; by observing the progress and return of comets, with the changes of motion in the sun, moon, and stars!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There never before was seen on earth such a wonderful hybrid race as was thus produced.
-- Then Slackbridge, who had kept his oratorical arm extended during the going out, as if he were repressing with infinite solicitude and by a wonderful moral power the vehement passions of the multitude, applied himself to raising their spirits.
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