sullen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 绷着脸不高兴的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monseigneur could swal-low a great many things with ease, and was by some few sullen minds supposed to be rather rapidly swallowing France; but, his morning's chocolate could not so much as get into the throat of Monseigneur, without the aid of four strong men besides the Cook.
-- Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hang-dog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney!'
-- The bronze face, the shaggy black hair and beard, the coarse woollen red cap, the rough medley dress of home-spun stuff and hairy skins of beasts, the powerful frame attenuated by spare living, and the sullen and desper-ate compression of the lips in sleep, inspired the mender of roads with awe.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I remember now,' said Raskolnikov after a long, sullen silence.
-- 芒聙娄 And how dif-ferent, how different I had fancied our meeting!How sullen he was, as though not pleased to see us芒聙娄.'
-- But Raskolnikov sat still in the same place, almost sullen and indifferent.
-- 'Porfiry Petrovitch, please don't take up the notion that I have confessed to you to-day,' Raskolnikov pronounced with sullen insistence.
-- Sonia wrote that he was con-stantly sullen and not ready to talk, that he scarcely seemed interested in the news she gave him from their letters, that he sometimes asked after his mother and that when, see-ing that he had guessed the truth, she told him at last of her death, she was surprised to find that he did not seem great-ly affected by it, not externally at any rate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'David,' said Mr. Murdstone, one day after dinner when I wasgoing to leave the room as usual; 'I am sorry to observe that youare of a sullen disposition.'
-- 'Now, David,' said Mr. Murdstone, 'a sullen obdurate dispositionis, of all tempers, the worst.'
-- 'I have nevermeant to be sullen since I came back.'
-- It was a sombre evening, with a lurid light in the sky;and as I saw the prospect scowling in the distance, with here andthere some larger object starting up into the sullen glare, I fanciedit was no inapt companion to the memory of this fierce woman.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract; I might have become sullen in my study, through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness.
-- Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me, but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children abrood which was increased regularly every year.
-- As a result, Suellen's sullen resentment had passed beyond the pointof ladylike concealment and she glowered at Scarlett Small Carreen could have cried because, for all Scarlett'sencouraging words that morning, Brent had done no more than say "Hello, Sis" and jerk her hair ribbon before turninghis full attention to Scarlett.
-- Butto her pleadings, Scarlett turned a sullen face and a deaf ear.
-- Scarlett could hardly take any joy from that kiss, so sullen was her heart at Melly'sprompting it.
-- As she stood, looking out of the window, there came to her ears a far-off sound, faint and sullen as the first distantthunder of an approaching storm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I felt myself so unequal to the performance that I gave it up, and stood looking at Miss Havisham in what I suppose she took for a dogged manner, inasmuch as she said, when we had taken a good look at each other,--"Are you sullen and obstinate?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was little enough in him to brighten her face, for he was a sullen young fellow, and ungracious in his manner even to her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle never took his eyes from off it; he could not keep from gesticulating, and looking at it with a kind of sullen defiance as much as to say "That is the giant I have made up my mind to conquer."
-- At this moment I heard an accustomed and well-known sound running along the floors of the granite rock--a kind of dull and sullen roar, like that of a distant waterfall.
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