capital是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 首都, 大写字母, 资本 a. 可处死刑的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about her chin, that melted into one an-other when she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw in any little creature's head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The windows were often frozen over; but then they heated copper farthings on the stove, and laid the hot farthing on the windowpane, and then they had a capital peep-hole, quite nicely rounded; and out of each peeped a gentle friendly eye it was the little boy and the little girl who were looking out.
-- And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish, reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl; when the match went out and nothing but the thick, cold, damp wall was left behind.
-- * * Roeskilde, once the capital of Denmark.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the skaters, it seemed, with perfect self-possession, skated towards her, skated by her, even spoke to her, and were happy, quite apart from her, enjoying the capital ice and the fine weather.
-- "He's a capital fellow," pursued Oblonsky.
-- Nikolay Levin went on talking: "You know that capital oppresses the laborer.
-- Petritsky, whom he liked, was implicated in the affair, and the other culprit was a capital fellow and first-rate comrade, who had lately joined the regiment, the young Prince Kedrov.
-- I Sergey Ivanovitch's eyes his younger brother was a capital fellow, with his heart in the right place (as he expressed it in French), but with a mind which, though fairly quick, was too much influenced by the impressions of the moment, and consequently filled with contradictions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam.
-- Owing to the delay caused by the rescue of the young widow, Fix and the priests reached the Indian capital before Mr. Fogg and his servant, the magistrates having been already warned by a dispatch to arrest them should they arrive.
-- It is situated in the bay of Yeddo, and at but a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Empire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his office in his own.
-- A branch of the "grand trunk" led off southward to Denver, the capital of Colorado.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin's capital was practically gone.
-- So the Pendown Castle came to Blackwater, the capital and port of St. Hubert.
-- They sped out of the capital by white shell roads agonizing to the sun-poisoned eyes; they left the dusty shanties of suburban Yamtown for a land cool with bamboo groves and palmettoes, thick with sugar-cane.
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：
-- You must either pay it, with all expenses, costs and so on, or give a written declaration when you can pay it, and at the same time an undertaking not to leave the capital without pay-ment, and nor to sell or conceal your property.
-- 'But you were wrong there; he is a capital fellow, I assure you, but ex-plosive, explosive!He gets hot, fires up, boils over, and no stopping him!And then it's all over!And at the bottom he's a heart of gold!His nickname in the regiment was the Ex-plosive Lieutenant芒聙娄.'
-- He is a capital fellow, brother, first-rate 芒聙娄 in his own way, of course.
-- In the first place, it was evident, far too much so indeed, that Pyotr Petro-vitch had made eager use of his few days in the capital to get himself up and rig himself out in expectation of his be-trothed a perfectly innocent and permissible proceeding, indeed.
-- When it came to the question whether to shave his stubbly chin or not (Praskovya Pavlovna had capital razors that had been left by her late husband), the question was angrily answered in the negative.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They left me, during this time, with avery nice man, with a very large head of red hair and a very smallshiny hat upon it, who had got a cross-barred shirt or waistcoat on,with 'Skylark' in capital letters across the chest.
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