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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt that these pictures had something to say to me that was very important for me to know, but I could not tell what it was.
-- There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.
-- It is fitting that the bearer of important tidings should be rewarded.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a native of Massachusetts, a first-class engineer, to whom the government had confided, during the war, the direction of the railways, which were so important at that time.
-- At the same time and on the same day another important personage fell into the hands of the Southerners.
-- He did not fatigue the wires with incessant telegrams, like those who speak when they have nothing to say, but each of his notes, short, decisive, and clear, threw light on some important point.
-- Was this barren spot the desolate refuge of sea-birds, strewn with stones and destitute of vegetation, attached to a more important archipelago?
-- Now, on the one hand it was important to settle themselves in the neighborhood of a good stream of water, and on the other it was possible that the current had thrown Cyrus Harding on the shore there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having made up his mind on this important point, he circulated the glass (from his right hand to left, and back again) pretty freely, to enable him to act his part with the greater discretion, and then, after making some slight improvements in his toilet, bent his steps towards the spot hallowed by the fair object of his meditations.
-- This important step secured, with the assistance of a man of law whom he brought with him for the purpose, the dwarf proceeded to establish himself and his coadjutor in the house, as an assertion of his claim against all comers; and then set about making his quarters comfortable, after his own fashion.
-- All this Mr Codlin did with the air of a man who had made up his mind for the worst and was quite resigned; his eye slowly wandering about during the briskest repartee to observe the effect upon the audience, and particularly the impression made upon the landlord and landlady, which might be productive of very important results in connexion with the supper.
-- When she had brought all these testimonials of her important position in society to bear upon her young companion, Mrs Jarley rolled them up, and having put them carefully away, sat down again, and looked at the child in triumph.
-- At length the lady of the caravan shook off her fit of meditation, and, summoning the driver to come under the window at which she was seated, held a long conversation with him in a low tone of voice, as if she were asking his advice on an important point, and discussing the pros and cons of some very weighty matter.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Nekhludoff, besides the usual irresoluteness before marriage of people of his age, and who are not passionately in love, had an important reason for withholding his offer of marriage for the time being.
-- But there was no cause for his agitation; the husband, as commander of the district where Nekhludoff's estates were situated, informed the latter of a special meeting of the local governing body, and asked him to be present without fail, and donner un coup d'脙漏paule in the important measures to be submitted concerning the schools and roads, and that the reactionary party was expected to offer strong opposition.
-- Notwithstanding that they were all complaining that the jury duty was burdensome, and was taking them away from their business, they all seemed to be pleased with the consciousness of performing an important civic duty.
-- Everything proceeded smoothly, quickly and not without solemnity, and the regularity, order and solemnity evidently pleased the participants, confirming their sense of rendering important public service.
-- After the judges had risen, the jury, lawyers and witness also rose, and with the pleasant feeling of having already performed part of an important work, began to move hither and thither.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even a joke should have some meaning and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print the following important news:Old Anchor Inn, Bristol, March 1, 17 Dear Livesey As I do not know whether you are at the hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.
-- It was but a word or two that I could catch, and yet I gathered some important news, for besides other scraps that tended to the same purpose, this whole clause was audible: "Not another man of them'll jine."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ned Land, without waiting, occupied himself about the important dinner business.
-- This vacuum economised the graphite points between which the luminous arc was developed an important point of economy for Captain Nemo, who could not easily have replaced them; and under these conditions their waste was imperceptible.
-- In quitting this sea we sighted Muscat for an instant, one of the most important towns of the country of Oman.
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