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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My head is ringing like a bee tree,' said a sullen little voice over their heads, and Mowgli slid down a tree trunk very angry and indignant, adding as he reached the ground: 'I come for Bagheera and not for thee, fat old Baloo!'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although in a state of perfect repose, and apparent-ly disregarding, with characteristic stoicism, the excitement and bustle around him, there was a sullen fierceness min-gled with the quiet of the savage, that was likely to arrest the attention of much more experienced eyes than those which now scanned him, in unconcealed amazement.
-- Besides,' she added, in a low and hurried voice, casting a glance at the distant Cora, who slowly followed the foot-steps of their silent, but sullen guide, 'it may be a friend added to our strength, in time of need.'
-- Giving them reason to believe he was merely employed in a consul-tation concerning the future route, he spurred his charger, and drew the reins again when the animal had carried him within a few yards of the place where the sullen runner still stood, leaning against the tree.
-- Behind them, the curvature of the banks soon bounded the view by the same dark and wooded outline; but in front, and apparently at no great distance, the water seemed piled against the heavens, whence it tumbled into caverns, out of which issued those sullen sounds that had loaded the eve-ning atmosphere.
-- He then seated himself in the cen-ter of the cavern, grasping his remaining pistol with a hand convulsively clenched, while his contracted and frowning eye announced the sullen desperation of his purpose.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong headed, broad-skirted Dutch ur-chin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Huge and dark clouds cast their grey shadows below--shadows which seemed to crush that colorless and sullen water by their weight.
-- The waterspout, rising to a height of five hundred feet, breaks in spray with a dull, sullen roar.
-- In a mood of stolid and sullen resignation, I was about to take my accustomed place on the raft when my uncle placed his hand upon my shoulder.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She strode swinging down the wet drive, her sullen resentment upper-most.
-- They were big blue eyes rather like her own, but with a cer-tain uneasiness in them, a look sometimes of an uneasy little boy, sometimes a look of sullen selfishness, usually good-humoured and wary.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the resentful Sunday of a little later, when he sat down glowering and glooming through the tardy length of the day, with a sullen sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters.
-- As she gently opened the window, and looked eastward down the prison yard, the spikes upon the wall were tipped with red, then made a sullen purple pattern on the sun as it came flaming up into the heavens.
-- She was a little lofty with him; so was another old lady, dark-browed and high-nosed, and who must have had something real about her or she could not have existed, but it was certainly not her hair or her teeth or her figure or her complexion; so was a grey old gentleman of dignified and sullen appearance; both of whom had come to dinner.
-- Some said he was proud; some objected that he was sullen and reserved; some were contemptuous of him, for that he was a poor-spirited dog who pined under his debts.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
-- And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
-- "No need, gentlemen; one moment, and I proceed. Now, gentlemen, so suddenly perceiving the snowy whale within fifty yards of the ship forgetful of the compact among the crew in the excitement of the moment, the Teneriffe man had instinctively and involuntarily lifted his voice for the monster, though for some little time past it had been plainly beheld from the three sullen mast-heads.
-- The smoke rolled away in sullen heaps.
-- Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By evening, when Hurstwood reached home, she had brooded herself into a state of sullen desire for explanation and revenge.
-- More than once he stopped and looked at these, gazing at the pretty face in a sullen sort of way.
-- It was all sullen endurance, unlightened by either wit or good fellowship.
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