important是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 重要的， 重大的； 有地位的， 有权力的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evident that the carriage belonged to a rich and important person who was awaiting it somewhere; the police, of course, were in no little anxiety to avoid up-setting his arrangements.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the state of matters on the afternoon of what I may beexcused for calling, that eventful and important Friday.
-- I am sensibleof having felt that a dignity attached to me among the rest of theboys, and that I was important in my affliction.
-- Murdstone and Grinby's trade was among a good many kinds ofpeople, but an important branch of it was the supply of wines andspirits to certain packetships.
-- That, perhaps, it was alittle unjust that all the great offices in this great office, should bemagnificent sinecures, while the unfortunate working-clerks in thecold dark room upstairs were the worst rewarded, and the leastconsidered men, doing important services, in London.
-- Miss Murdstone's heavy eyebrows followed me to the door-I say her eyebrows rather than her eyes; because they were muchmore important in her face- and she looked so exactly as she usedto look at about that hour of the morning, in our parlour atBlunderstone, that I could have fancied I had been breaking downin my lessons again, and that the dead weight on my mind wasthat horrible old spelling-book with oval woodcuts, shaped, to myyouthful fancy, like the glasses out of spectacles.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage; she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure.
-- The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness be-comes.
-- Woman's usual occupations of hand and mind will be as open to me then as they are now; or with no important variation.
-- A sudden freak seemed to have seized him at breakfast, and he had sent for a chaise and set off, intending to return to dinner, but with no more important view that appeared than having his hair cut.
-- Emma continued, 'I have not said, exert yourself Harriet for my sake; think less, talk less of Mr. Elton for my sake; because for your own sake rather, I would wish it to be done, for the sake of what is more important than my comfort, a habit of self-command in you, a consideration of what is your duty, an attention to propriety, an endeavour to avoid the suspicions of others, to save your health and credit, and restore your tranquil-lity.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "An important matter made it necessary for me to give up my visit to Liddy, and go off at once.
-- What were his prospects that he should be so chary of running risk, when important and urgent labour could not be carried on without such risk?
-- Boldwood, who seemed so much deeper and higher and stronger in feeling than Gabriel, had not yet learnt, any more than she herself, the simple lesson which Oak showed a mastery of by every turn and look he gave that among the multitude of interests by which he was surrounded, those which affected his personal well-being were not the most absorbing and important in his eyes.
-- The first was a short paragraph in the local newspaper, which, beyond making by a methodizing pen formidable presumptive evidence of Troy's death by drowning, contained the important testimony of a young Mr. Barker, M.D., of Budmouth, who spoke to being an eyewitness of the accident, in a letter to the editor.
-- "Yes, but I have something important to do, which I'll tell you of when the time comes, and it's best to make sure."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly the young man's ambition discerned in those recollections of hers, which had been like nursery fairy tales to her nephews and nieces, the elements of a social success at least as important as the success which he had achieved at the Ecole de Droit.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, only last week, when they were riding home at twilight from Fairhill, he had said: "Scarlett, I havesomething so important to tell you that I hardly know how to say it."
-- to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, andI'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it ...
-- Scarlett was used to men asking her to marrythem, men much more attractive than Charles Hamilton, and men who had more finesse than to propose at a barbecuewhen she had more important matters on her mind.
-- It had seemed so important once, but now it didn't seem important at all.
-- They had ambitious plans to cut thevitally important railroad between Atlanta and Tennessee and then swing southward into Atlanta to destroy thefactories and the war supplies concentrated there in that key city of the Confederacy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard the mice too, rattling behind the panels, as if the same occurrence were important to their interests.
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