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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The second line is completely effaced," continued the Captain; "but here are two important words on the third.
-- But before starting he confided an important missive to a swifter agent than himself, and a few minutes afterward it flashed along the electric wire to London, to appear next day in the Times and Morning Chronicle in the following words: "For information respecting the fate of the three-mast vessel BRITANNIA, of Glasgow, Captain Grant, apply to Lord Glenarvan, Malcolm Castle, Luss, Dumbartonshire, Scotland."
-- "Yes, I have to attempt a curious and important journey, the plan of which has been drawn up by my learned friend and colleague, M. Vivien de Saint Martin.
-- One important question had first to be settled.
-- There is one much more important than that is—should we from this time, and all together, give up our search on the American continent?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will say that an important telegram has mis-carried and that you are looking for it.
-- We have established a most important fact by these questions, Watson,' he continued in a low voice as we went upstairs together.
-- And now, having brought you up to date in the escaped convict, the Stapletons, Dr. Mortimer, and Frankland, of Lafter Hall, let me end on that which is most important and tell you more about the Barrymores, and especially about the surprising development of last night.
-- 'I cannot understand, Barrymore, how you came to con-ceal this important information.'
-- 'Ha, ha, my boy, a very much more important matter than that!What about the convict on the moor?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- General Epanchin, as ev-eryone knew, had a good deal to do with certain government monopolies; he was also a voice, and an important one, in many rich public companies of various descriptions; in fact, he enjoyed the reputation of being a wellto-do man of busy habits, many ties, and affluent means.
-- He had married young, while still a lieutenant, his wife being a girl of about his own age, who possessed neither beauty nor education, and who brought him no more than fifty souls of landed property, which little estate served, however, as a nest-egg for far more important accumulations.
-- While still young the wife had been able to make important friends among the aristocracy, partly by virtue of her family descent, and part-ly by her own exertions; while, in after life, thanks to their wealth and to the position of her husband in the service, she took her place among the higher circles as by right.
-- That is how official documents addressed to important -personages should be written.
-- Now, since Totski had, of late, been upon terms of great cordiality with Epanchin, which excellent relations were in-tensified by the fact that they were, so to speak, partners in several financial enterprises, it so happened that the for-mer now put in a friendly request to the general for counsel with regard to the important step he meditated.
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：
-- Thus, it was deemed more important to obtain the scalp than to kill the man.
-- No shout of triumph succeeded this important advan-tage, but even the Mohicans gazed at each other in silent horror.
-- The medal* of Magua will no longer be of tin, but of beaten gold; his horn will run over with powder; dollars will be as plenty in his pouch as pebbles on the shore of Horican; and the deer will lick his hand, for they will know it to be vain to fly from the rifle he will carry!As for myself, I know not how to exceed the gratitude of the Scotchman, but I yes, I will ' * It has long been a practice with the whites to concili-ate the important men of the Indians by presenting medals, which are worn in the place of their own rude ornaments.
-- Valiant and skillful hast thou proved thyself in the conflict, and I hereby thank thee, before proceeding to discharge other and more important duties, because thou hast proved thyself well worthy of a Christian's praise.'
-- 'Our decision should be speedy,' said Duncan, gladly availing himself of this change of humor, to press the more important objects of their interview; 'I cannot conceal from you, sir, that the camp will not be much longer tenable; and I am sorry to add, that things appear no better in the fort; more than half the guns are bursted.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Benches were built along the sides for summer use; and a great spinning-wheel at one end, and a churn at the other, showed the various uses to which this important porch might be devoted.
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 is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,芒聭路 was sold at Christie's shortly after the discussion which followed the publication of Mr. Strickland's biography, it fetched POUNDS 235 less than it had done nine months before when it was bought by the distinguished collector whose sudden death had brought it once more under the hammer.
-- I flattered myself that I had got in that important question very naturally.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engine also began its whistle-calls of four parts, with which it signalled danger to important crossings.
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