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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a capital house for study.
-- It would do for me and Dora admirably; with a little front gardenfor Jip to run about in, and bark at the tradespeople through therailings, and a capital room upstairs for my aunt.
-- Before we went, I wrote Traddles a full statement of all that hadhappened, and Traddles wrote me back a capital answer,expressive of his sympathy and friendship.
-- Agnes has agreat liking for Traddles, and it is capital to see them meet, and toobserve the glory of Traddles as he commends the dearest girl inthe world to her acquaintance.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Weston, capital in her country-dances, was seated, and beginning an irresistible waltz; and Frank 278 EmmaChurchill, coming up with most becoming gallantry to Emma, had secured her hand, and led her up to the top.
-- And I see very few pearls in the room except mine. So Frank Churchill is a capital dancer, I understand. We shall see if our styles suit. A fine young man certainly is Frank Churchill.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The result from capital employed in the production of any movement of a mental nature is sometimes as tremendous as the cause itself is absurdly minute.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- de l'Ambermesnil; it was a capital notion, which for that matter she had guessed from the very first; in her opinion the vermicelli maker was an excellent man.
-- "A young lad of a student is, on the contrary, a capital lightning-conductor; is not that so?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his lay capacity, he persisted in sitting down in the damp to such an insane extent, that when his coat was taken off to be dried at the kitchen fire, the circumstantial evidence on his trousers would have hanged him, if it had been a capital offence.
-- Joe pronounced this word, as if it began with at least twelve capital Bs.
-- Now it appeared to him (Pumblechook) that if that capital were got into the business, through a sleeping partner, sir,--which sleeping partner would have nothing to do but walk in, by self or deputy, whenever he pleased, and examine the books,--and walk in twice a year and take his profits away in his pocket, to the tune of fifty per cent,--it appeared to him that that might be an opening for a young gentleman of spirit combined with property, which would be worthy of his attention.
-- "I shall not rest satisfied with merely employing my capital in insuring ships.
-- This certainly had not a profitable appearance, and I shook my head as if I would imply that it would be difficult to lay by much accumulative capital from such a source of income.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.
-- First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in goose-grease for six months; and then there are all the beautiful white feath-ers.
-- 'Now,' said the grinder, as he gave him a common rough stone that lay by his side, 'this is a most capital stone; do but work it well enough, and you can make an old nail cut with it.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue; and producing his credentials under the signet royal, which he applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes without any signs of anger, but with a kind of determinate resolution, often pointing forwards, which, as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city, about half a mile distant; whither it was agreed by his maj-esty in council that I must be conveyed.
-- It seems, that upon the first moment I was discovered sleeping on the ground, after my landing, the emperor had early notice of it by an express; and determined in council, that I should be tied in the manner I have related, (which was done in the night while I slept;) that plenty of meat and drink should be sent to me, and a machine prepared to car-ry me to the capital city.
-- Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been car-ried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller ves-sels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and 53soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
-- It was now day-light, and I returned to my house without waiting to congratulate with the emperor: because, although I had done a very eminent piece of service, yet I could not tell how his majesty might resent the manner by which I had performed it: for, by the fundamental laws of the realm, it is capital in any person, of what quality soever, to make 62 Gulliver's Travelswater within the precincts of the palace.
-- Ingratitude is among them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from whom he has received no obligation, and therefore such a man is not fit to live.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That's a capital girl,' said Tom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An hour later, the capital of Denmark seemed to sink into the waves, and we were at no great distance from the coast of Elsinore.
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