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 was a young man with furtive eyes and a sullen look.
-- Her tranquillity was like the sullen calm that broods over an island which has been swept by a hurricane.
-- Sometimes Mrs. Nichols would send her daughter, a pale-faced, sullen child of seven, to the hotel.
-- They were sullen with unawaited dangers, and to eat them might turn a man to beast or god.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a few whispered words from her daughter, and a kind inquiry from her son-in-law whether she felt faint, with a hint that there was abundance of cold water in the next apartment, routed these symptoms effectually, and she applied herself to the prescribed preparations with sullen diligence.
-- The sky was red with flame, and the water that bore it there had been tinged with the sullen light as it flowed along.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Not years, but a lifetime," said Maslova, and suddenly her face became sullen and a wrinkle formed between her eyebrows.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At one time it had for a little while glowed more brilliantly again, but it speedily reverted to its sullen red heat.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said with sullen calm.
-- Suddenly the Pussum appeared again in the door, her small, childish face looking sullen and vindictive.
-- A certain pity and grief and tenderness for his father overcame him, in spite of the deeper, more sullen hostility.
-- He saw, with subtle recognition, her sullen passion of cruelty.
-- she repeated, in a sullen voice of antagonism.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was vain of his commendations, and softened towards the being by whose means I earned them, and thus Hindley lost his last ally: still I couldn't dote on Heathcliff, and I wond ered often what my master saw to admire so much in the sullen boy; who never, to my recollection, repaid his indulgence by any sign of gratitude.
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