gradual是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 逐渐的, 不陡的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were ready to go to church; the beautiful bride, Mr. Lorry, and Miss Pross to whom the event, through a gradual process of reconcilement to the inevitable, would have been one of absolute bliss, but for the yet lingering consideration that her brother Solomon should have been the bridegroom.
-- So far as it was possible to comprehend him with-out overstepping those delicate and gradual approaches which Mr. Lorry felt to be the only safe advance, he at first supposed that his daughter's marriage had taken place yes-terday.
-- His hold on life was strong, and it was very, very hard, to loosen; by gradual efforts and degrees unclosed a little here, it clenched the tighter there; and when he brought his strength to bear on that hand and it yielded, this was closed again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beyond, the rock opened again upon a gradual slope of sunlit greenery, and on either hand the light smote down through narrow ways into the central gloom.
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：
-- But that is the beginning of a new story the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regen-eration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some think that it will arise from the falling of the temperature, which the sun will experience alter millions of years; others, from the gradual extinction of the fires in the interior of our globe, which have a greater influence on it than is generally supposed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be tedious to pursue the conversation through all its artful windings, or to develope the gradual approaches by which the heart of Richard Swiveller was gained.
-- Between the old man and herself there had come a gradual separation, harder to bear than any former sorrow.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Drink, Henry Fray drink," magnanimously said Jan Coggan, a person who held Saint-Simonian notions of share and share alike where liquor was concerned, as the vessel showed signs of approaching him in its gradual revolution among them.
-- Many are not so stealthy and gradual as we may be apt to imagine in considering the general torpidity of a moor or waste.
-- Up the hill stretched a road nearly straight and perfectly white, the two sides approaching each other in a gradual taper till they met the sky at the top about two miles off.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She attributed the change not so much to a gradual diminution of fortune as to a spiteful wish to annoy his hostess.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought the windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift; while To Let, To Let, To Let, glared at me from empty rooms, as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance of the soul of Barnard were being slowly appeased by the gradual suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under the gravel.
-- As Wemmick and Miss Skiffins sat side by side, and as I sat in a shadowy corner, I observed a slow and gradual elongation of Mr. Wemmick's mouth, powerfully suggestive of his slowly and gradually stealing his arm round Miss Skiffins's waist.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, as to that infa-mous practice of acquiring great employments by dancing on the ropes, or badges of favour and distinction by leaping over sticks and creeping under them, the reader is to ob-serve, that they were first introduced by the grandfather of the emperor now reigning, and grew to the present height by the gradual increase of party and faction.
-- Some weeks before their death, they feel a gradual decay; but without pain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I mean that I hope you may be induced to arrange in a friendly manner, for allowing Louisa a period of repose and reflection here, which may tend to a gradual alteration for the better in many respects.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The descent of this obscure and narrow gallery was very gradual and winding.
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：
-- It was a record of hard work and of little adventure; of experiments in this direction and in that; of the gradual acquisition of the knowledge of books and of men.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor, considered aright, does it seem any argument in favour of the gradual extinction of the Sperm Whale, for example, that in former years (the latter part of the last century, say) these Leviathans, in small pods, were encountered much oftener than at present, and, in consequence, the voyages were not so prolonged, and were also much more remunerative.
-- he cried, in long-drawn, lingering, methodic tones, attuned to the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel nobody, not they), of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply; and at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months sus-pense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer her father's incredulity, and reconcile him to the match.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he went West, and there was a gradual subsidence of whatever personal attraction had existed.
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