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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been brought up at the castle by the Glenarvan family, and had turned out a capital sailor, having already given proof, in some of his long voyages, of his skill and energy and sang-froid.
-- Mary involuntarily gave a start, but the captain said:"Oh, don't be afraid, Miss Mary; he is all right, take my word for it; I'll have a capital sailor to present to Captain Grant before long, for we'll find the worthy captain, depend upon it."
-- We shall go through the capital of Araucania, and cut the Cordilleras by the pass of Antuco, leaving the volcano on the south, and gliding gently down the mountain sides, past the Neuquem and the Rio Colorado on to the Pampas, till we reach the Sierra Tapalquen, from whence we shall see the frontier of the province of Buenos Ayres.
-- We shall do capital here."
-- He visited all the capital cities in the world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our morning meal was like a capital English breakfast, with coffee by way of a windup.
-- The boxes which contained our supply of food for the voyage were placed in a row along the strand, and were in a capital state of preservation; the sea had in every case respected their contents, and to sum up in one sentence, taking into consideration, biscuits, salt meat, Schiedam and dried fish, we could still calculate on having about four months' supply, if used with prudence and caution.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For he would have to have some work, even hard work, to do, and he would have to make his own living, even if her capital started him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were a capital party.'
-- It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.
-- 'Honest creature, woman of capital points, but heedless and a loose talker, Miss Dorrit.'
-- But what a capital world it is!'
-- 'Capital company here,' said Pancks. 'Eh, Miss Dorrit?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I had a capital time.
-- The P. O. was a capital little institution, and flour-ished wonderfully, for nearly as many queer things passed through it as through the real post office.
-- You go to Aunt March's, and I'll come and take you out every day, driving or walking, and we'll have capital times.
-- Laurie came every day, and wheedled Aunt March till Amy was allowed to go out with him, when they walked and rode and had capital times.
-- She dried her tears quickly, restrained her impatience to see her mother, and never even thought of the turquoise ring, when the old lady heartily agreed in Laurie's opinion, that she behaved 'like a capital little woman'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But all in all, taking her from truck to helm, considering the dimensions of the cook's boilers, including his own live parchment boilers; fore and aft, I say, the Samuel Enderby was a jolly ship; of good fare and plenty; fine flip and strong; crack fellows all, and capital from boot heels to hat-band.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Which was a capital way of raising his spirits, and putting him quite at his ease.
-- At length he put it down, as if despairing of success; and, leaning back in his chair, muttered: 'What a fine thing capital punishment is!Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our instrument is a capital one, probably superior to You shall try it some day.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After I had been there about ten or twelve days, it came into my thoughts that I should lose my reckoning of time for want of books, and pen and ink, and should even forget the Sabbath days; but to prevent this, I cut with my knife upon a large post, in capital letters - and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed - 'I came on shore here on the 30th September 1659.'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had capital and a theater, I wouldn't want a better lay-out than that and here we've gone and sold 'em for a song.
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