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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that here, in the real living experience of living men, the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain near Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen.
-- Oh!he's a wonderful old man!"
-- Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic hours, is his wonderful patience of industry.
-- How wonderful is it then except after explanation that this great monster, to whom corporeal warmth is as indispensable as it is to man; how wonderful that he should be found at home, immersed to his lips for life in those Arctic waters!where, when seamen fall overboard, they are sometimes found, months afterwards, perpendicularly frozen into the hearts of fields of ice, as a fly is found glued in amber.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Look here!do you see this!Isn't it a most wonderful and extraordinary thing that I can't call at a man's house but I find a piece of this poor surgeon's friend on the staircase?
-- Acting upon this suggestion, they adjourned to a neighbouring apartment, where Mr. Brittles, being called in, involved himself and his respected superior in such a wonderful maze of fresh contradictions and impossibilities, as tended to throw no particular light on anything, but the fact of his own strong mystification; except, indeed, his declarations that he shouldn't know the real boy, if he were put before him that instant; that he had only taken Oliver to be he, because Mr. Giles had said he was; and that Mr. Giles had, five minutes previously, admitted in the kitchen, that he began to be very much afraid he had been a little too hasty.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her aunt assured her that she was, and Elizabeth hav-ing thanked her for the kindness of her hints, they parted; a wonderful instance of advice being given on such a point, without being resented.
-- It is wonderful how many families I have been the means of supplying in that way.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rainy season of the autumnal equinox was now come, and I kept the 30th of September in the same solemn manner as before, being the anniversary of my landing on the island, having now been there two years, and no more prospect of being delivered than the first day I came there, I spent the whole day in humble and thankful acknowledg-ments of the many wonderful mercies which my solitary condition was attended with, and without which it might have been infinitely more miserable.
-- Thus my fear banished all my religious hope, all that former confidence in God, which was founded upon such wonderful experience as I had had of His goodness; as if He that had fed me by miracle hitherto could not preserve, by His power, the provision which He had made for me by His goodness.
-- He stood like one frightened again, notwithstanding all I had said to him; and I found he was the more amazed, because he did not see me put anything into the gun, but thought that there must be some wonderful fund of death and destruction in that thing, able to kill man, beast, bird, or anything near or far off; and the astonishment this created in him was such as could not wear off for a long time; and I believe, if I would have let him, he would have worshipped me and my gun.
-- I began first, and told him my whole history, which he heard with an attention even to amazement - and particularly at the wonderful manner of my being furnished with provisions and ammunition; and, indeed, as my story is a whole collection of wonders, it af-fected him deeply.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Edward, who had till then looked any where, rather than at her, saw her hurry away, and perhaps saw or even heard, her emotion; for immediately afterwards he fell into a reverie, which no remarks, no inquiries, no affectionate address of Mrs. Dashwood could penetrate, and at last, without saying a word, quitted the room, and walked out towards the village leaving the others in the greatest astonishment and perplexity on a change in his situation, so wonderful and so sudden; a perplexity which they had no means of lessening but by their own conjectures.
-- Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor Mr. Edward, who, she was sure, had quite doted upon the worthless hussy, and was now, by all accounts, almost broken-hearted, at Oxford. "I do think," she continued, "nothing was ever carried on so sly; for it was but two days before Lucy called and sat a couple of hours with me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the child, the genius with imagination, or the wholly untravelled, the approach to a great city for the first time is a wonderful thing.
-- Even after all her depressing conclusions, she could sweep away all thought about the matter and then the twenty dollars seemed a wonderful and delightful thing.
-- The common run of conventional, perfunctory notices of the doings of society, which she could scarcely refrain from scanning each day, had given her a distinct idea of the gorgeousness and luxury of this wonderful temple of gastronomy.
-- What a wonderful thing it was to be rich.
-- It did not seem so wonderful to be in it when he was in it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful.
-- Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him.
-- In St. Petersburg they used to say there was twenty or thirty thousand people in St. Louis, but I never believed it till I see that wonderful spread of lights at two o'clock that still night.
-- In other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and gold with a 'divining-rod,' 'dissipating witch spells,' and so on.
-- Wonderful Attraction!
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